Understanding the Dynamics of the Coupled Climate System
Funded by
- European Territorial Cooperation Operational Programme "Greece-Italy" (2007 - 2013)
General aims
- To quantify strongly and weakly coupled processes underlying the natural variability of ENSO and NAO/AO;
- To evaluate the representation of the coupled processes underlying ENSO (wind stress, weather noise, phase syncronization and locking, tropical scale interactions, wave activity) and the NAO (SST, snow cover, sea ice cover, troposphere/stratosphere coupling) in state-of-art models used to predict climate change;
- To identify the response of ENSO and NAO/AO to climate change;
- To quantify the role of ocean biology in the variability of the tropical coupled climate system, including ENSO.
Activity
The project will elucidate key theoretical and practical aspects of the NAO/AO and ENSO through analyses of available observations, application of classical and new theory, and use of idealised and state-of-the-art numerical models of the atmosphere, ocean, land-surface, sea-ice, marine biology, and the coupled climate system.
Partners
- BCCR - Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
- BKK Radgiving AS - BKK Radgiving (hydro power)
- CGAM - Centre for Atmospheric Modelling, University of Reading
- MSGI SpA - SGI SpA (Environmental Management)
- Hadley Centre - Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
- IAP/CAS - Institute of Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences
- IfM - Institute of Marine Research, University of Kiel
- INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
- INMH - National Institute of Metereology, Hydrology and Water Management
- IPSL - Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie
- NEG Micon A/S - NEG Micon (wind turbines)
- NERSC - Stiftelsen Nansen Senter for Fjernmaaling
- Vexcel UK Limited - Vexcel (Marine & polar remote sensing)