ICARUS – Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems

ICARUS will develop innovative tools for urban impact assessment in support of air quality and climate change governance in the EU.

Duration
48 months from 01/05/2016 to 30/04/2020
Funded by
  • Commissione Europea

Coordinating organization
  • AUTH - Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis

CMCC Scientific Leader
CMCC Project manager
CMCC Institutes

CMCC Divisions

General aims

ICARUS will develop a vision of a future green city: a visionary model that will seek to minimize environmental and health impacts. Transition pathways will be drawn that will demonstrate how current cities could be transformed towards cities with close to zero or negative carbon footprint and maximal wellbeing within the next 50 years.


CMCC Role

The CMCC is involved in the activities of WP3 “Integrated atmospheric modelling for connecting pressures to the environment to concentrations at the regional and urban scales”.


Expected results

The objective of WP3 is to use source apportionment methods and – as far as necessary – measurements of concentrations of trace constituents in the atmosphere to:

a) further evaluate model results

b) develop an approach for estimating changes in concentrations caused by changes in emissions of certain sources (e.g.wood combustion, road transport) without the necessity to use atmospheric transport modeling.


Activity

 The CMCC has to provide:

1) the data and climate indicators at local and regional level;
2) the definition of the methodology for assessing the changes in radiative forcing;
3) the assessment of changes in radiative forcing of surface.


Partners
  • CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
  • UNEXE - University of Exteter
  • UNIBRIS - University of Bristol
  • USTUTT - Universitaet Stuttgart
  • ISCIII - Instituto de salud Carlos III
  • Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
  • ADDMA - Etaireia Anaptyxis kai Touristikis provolis Athinon - Anaptyxiaki anonymos etaireia organismou topikis aftodiokisis
  • JSI - Institut Jozef Stefan
  • Enviros S.R.O.
  • EUCENTRE - Centro europeo di formazione e ricerca in ingegneria sismica
  • UPCOM BVBA
  • KARTECO - Karteris Apostolos karteris Marine OE
  • MESAEP e V - Wissenschaftliche vereiningung fur den umweltschulz im mittelmeer
  • MU - Masarykova univerzita
  • SWISS TPH - Schweizerisches tropen und public health institut
  • NCSRD - National center for scientific research "Demokritos"
  • ARTEMIS - Th Soulos I Kylafi EE

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