European Research on
Climate Change
Funded by the Seventh Framework Programme
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Directorate I – Environment
Unit I.4 – Climate Change & Natural Hazards
Contact: Estelle Barrillon
Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
INTRODUCTION
Climate change is arguably among the most pressing societal challenges of our times, and now certainly the most well-known amongst the public. From initial observations of global warming and proposed ideas about the root causes, a steady consensus has built up that climate change is one of the most serious threats facing the world in the near future. It is very clearly stated in the recently released 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the physical science basis, that global warming is mostly caused by human activities
Climate change research: its European roots Climate sciences have an illustrious European history. In the 19th century, Germany’s Wladimir Köppen laid the foundations for climatology, while the French mathematician Joseph Fourier (1768 – 1830) postulated the natural greenhouse warming effect and speculated that human behaviour could change a regions climate. Swedish Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius made the first, and amazingly realistic, calculations in 1896 on how changes in the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere could alter the temperature of the Earth’s surface. In the 1930s the British scientist Guy Stewart Callendar demonstrated that global land temperatures had increased over the previous 50 years and showed that this could have been caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions
Research into the Earth’s climate system has been present in the EU’s Framework Programmes from the beginning. In the 1980s the focus was on the ozone depletion in the stratosphere and EU-projects played an important role for the global ban of the production of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone depleting substances (Montreal protocol). Meanwhile, the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases raised concerns about climate change and lead to the establishment of the IPCC in 1988. Since then, European research provided essential contributions to its regularly published assessment reports
Climate change research has grown considerably in size and complexity. FP5 (1998– 2002) supported a large number of projects within the specific ‘key action’ on ‘Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity’. FP6 (2003-2008) supported 31 large projects on climate change, with research areas ranging from atmospheric pollutants to the prediction of climate change and its impacts..
Index
In alphabetical order
A
ABSTRESS 262
Improving the resistance of legume crops to combined abiotic and biotic stress
ACCENT 324
Action on Climate Change through Engagement, Networks and Tools
ACCENT-PLUS 140
Atmospheric Composition Change: the European Network -Policy Support and Science
ACCESS 184
Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society
ACQWA 186
Assessing climate impacts on the quantiy and quality of water
ACTRIS 142
Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure Network
ADAPTAWHEAT 326
Genetics and physiology of wheat development to flowering: tools to breed for
improved adaptation and yield potential
ADVANCE 328
Advance Model Development and Validation for Improved Analysis of Costs and
Impacts of Mitigation Policies
AFRICA GHG 94
The role of African tropical forests on the Greenhouse Gases balance of the
atmosphere
AFRICAN CLIMATE 330
The Web Platform for Uptake of Climate Related Research Results for Africa
AFRIVAL 96
African river basins: catchment-scale carbon fluxes and transformations
AIRSEA 2
Air-Sea Exchanges driven by Light
AMAZALERT 332
AMAZALERT – Raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and long-tern
land use change in the Amazon
AMOPROX 98
Quantifying Aerobic Methane Oxidation in the Ocean: Calibration and palaeo application
of a novel proxy
AMPERE 334
Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Pathways and Evaluation of the Robustness
of Mitigation Cost Estimates
ANAEE 188
Infrastructure for Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems
APPRAISAL 144
Integrated assessment for regional and local air quality policies
Instrument: Coordination and support actions
ARANGE 336
Advanced multifunctional forest management in European mountain ranges
ARCRISK 190
Arctic Health Risks: Impacts on health in the Arctic and Europe owing to climateinduced
changes in contaminant cycling
ARISE 146
Atmospheric dynamics Research Infrastructure in Europe
ATMNUCLE 148
Atmospheric nucleation: from molecular to global scale
ATMOGAIN 149
Atmospheric Gas-Aerosol Interactions – from Fundamental Theory to Global Effects
ATOPICA 192
Atopic diseases in changing climate, land use and air quality
ATP 3
Air-Sea Exchanges driven by Light
B
BASE 338
Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe
C
C8 151
Consistent computation of the chemistry-cloud continuum and climate change in
Cyprus
CACH 5
Reconstructing abrupt Changes in Chemistry and Circulation
CAPHAZ-NET 264
Social Capacity Building for Natural Hazards: Towards more resilient Societies
CAPRI 6
Clouds and Precipitation Response to Anthropogenic Changes in the Natural
Environment
CARBFIX 100
Creating the technology for safe, long-term carbon storage in the subsurface
CARBOCHANGE 102
Changes in carbon uptake and emissions by oceans in a changing climate
CARBO-EXTREME 104
The terrestrial Carbon cycle under Climate Variability and Extremes – a Pan-European
Synthesis
CARBONSINK 106
Life Beneath the Ocean Floor: The subsurface Sink of carbon in the Marine
Environment
CATALYST 266
Capacity Development for Natural
CC-TAME 340
Climate Change – Terrestrial Adaptation and Mitigation
CECILIA2050 342
Choosing Efficient Combinations of Policy Instruments for Low-carbon development and
Innovation to Achieve Europe’s 2050 climate targets
CIRCLE-2 194
Climate Impact Research & Response Coordination for a Larger Europe
CITYZEN 153
megaCITY - Zoom for the ENvironment
CLAMER 196
Climate change and marine ecosystem research results
CLARIS LPB 198
A Europe South-America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies
in La Plata Basin
CLEAR 200
Climate change, environmental contaminants and reproductive health
CLICO 202
Climate Change. Hydro-conflicts and Human Security
CLIMAFRICA 344
Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations
CLIMATECOST 346
ClimateCost The Full Costs of Climate Change
CLIMATE FOR CULTURE 204
Damage risk assessment, economic impact and mitigation strategies for sustainable
preservation of cultural heritage in the times of climate change
CLIMATEWATER 348
Bridging the gap between adaptation strategies of climate change impacts and
European water policies
CLIMB 206
Climate Induced Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins: Reducing
Uncertainty and Quantifying Risk through an Integrated Monitoring and Modeling
System
CLIM-RUN 268
Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region Responding to User Needs
CLIMSAVE 350
Climate change integrated assessment methodology for cross-sectoral adaptation and
vulnerability in Europe
CLUVA 270
CLimate Change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa
Instrument: FP 7 – Collaborative project
CO2SOLSTOCK 108
Biobased geological CO2 storage
CO2VOLC 110
Quantifying the global volcanic CO2 cycle
COCOS 111
Coordination action Carbon Observing System
COMBINE 8
Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth System for Better Climate Prediction and
Projection
COMBINISO 155
Quantitative picture of interactions between climate, hydrological cycle and
stratospheric inputs in Antarctica over the last 100 years via the combined use of all
water isotopes
COMPLEX 352
Knowledge Based Climate Mitigation Systems for a Low Carbon Economy
CONHAZ 272
Costs of Natural Hazards
COPAL 157
COmmunity heavy-PAyload Long endurance Instrumented Aircraft for Tropospheric
Research in Environmental and Geo-Sciences
CORFU 274
Collaborative research on flood resilience in urban areas
D
DARECLIMED 10
Data repositories and computational infrastructure for environmental and climate
studies in the eastern mediterranean
DE-CO2 113
Quantifying CO2 emissions from tropical deforestation to ‘close’ the global carbon
budget
DESERT STORMS 12
Desert Storms – Towards an Improved Representation of Meteorological Processes in
Models of Mineral Dust Emission
DEWFORA 276
Improved Drought Early Warning and FORecasting to strengthen preparedness and
adaptation to droughts in Africa
DINOPRO 14
From Protist to Proxy: Dinoflagellates as signal carriers for climate and carbon cycling
during past and present extreme climate transitions
DOFOCO 278
Do forests cool the Earth? Reconciling sustained productivity and minimum climate
response with ensembles of contrasting forest management strategies
DRIHM 15
Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology
DRIHM2US 17
Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydro-Meteorology to United States of America
DROPS 208
DROught-tolerant yielding PlantS
DROUGHT-R&SPI 280
Fostering European Drought Research and Science-Policy Interfacing
DUSTTRAFFIC 159
Transatlantic fluxes of Saharan dust: changing climate through fertilising the ocean?
E
EARLYHUMANIMPACT 19
How long have human activities been affecting the climate system
ECCONET 210
Effects of climate change on the inland waterway network
ECLAIRE 212
Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for
European Ecosystems
ECLIPSE 214
Evaluating the Climate and Air Quality Impacts of Short-Lived Pollutants
ECLISE 354
Enabling Climate Information Services for Europe
ECO2 114
Sub-seabed CO2 Storage: Impact on Marine Ecosystems
ECOADAPT 356
Ecosystem-based strategies and innovations in water governance networks for
adaptation to climate change in Latin American Landscapes
EMBRACE 21
Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change
EMIS 23
An Intense Summer Monsoon in a Cool World, Climate and East Asian monsoon during
interglacials with a special emphasis on the Interglacials 500 000 years ago and
before
ENCI-LOWCARB 358
European Network engaging Civil society in Low Carbon scenarios
ENHANCE 282
Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe
ENSURE 284
Enhancing resilience of communities and territories facing natural and na-tech hazards
ENTRACTE 360
Assessment and further development of the European climate policy
EPOCA 25
European Project on Ocean Acidification
ERA-CLIM 27
European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations
ERICON-ABSTRACT 29
The European Polar Research Icebreaker Consortium Aurora Borealis
ERMITAGE 31
Enhancing Robustness and Model Integration for The Assessment of Global
Environmental Change
ESCAPE 216
European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects
EUCLIPSE 161
EU Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study & Ealuation Project
EUFAR 33
European Facility for Airborne Research in environmental and geoscience
EUGENE 35
Improving coordination, visibility and impact of European GEOSS contributions by
establishing a EUropean GEoss NEtwork (EUGENE)
EUPORIAS 286
European Provision Of Regional Impacts Assessment on a Seasonal to decadal
timescale
EURO ARGO 37
Global Ocean Observing Infrastructure
EURO-BASIN 39
European Union Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration
EUROCHAMP-2 163
Integration of European Simulation Chambers for Investigating Atmospheric Processes
– Part 2
EUROCHAR 116
Biochar for Carbon sequestration and large-scale removal of greenhouse gases (GHG)
from the atmosphere
EUROOT 288
Enhancing resource Uptake from Roots under stress in cereal crops
Instrument: Integrated project
EUROPOLAR 218
European Polar Consortium: Strategic Coordination and Networking of European Polar
RTD Programmes
EUTRACE 362
EuTRACE – A European Transdisciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering
EWENT 290
Assessing disruptive effects of extreme weather events on operation and performance
of EU transport system
EXCATRO 165
In-situ experiments on the chemical composition of high altitude aerosols and clouds in
the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
F
FACCE-JPI 291
Joint Programming Initiative for Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change
FLOODCHANGE 293
Deciphering River Flood Change
FORCE 221
Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (FORCE): an ecosystem approach to
managing Caribbean coral reefs in the face of climate change
FORESTPRIME 118
Predicting carbon release from forest soils through priming effects: a new approach to
reconcile results across scales
FORMIT 295
Forest management strategies to enhance the MITigation potential of European forests
(FORMIT)
FUME 223
Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean
and other fire affected areas of the world
FUTURESOC 363
Forecasting Societies’Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change
G
GENESIS 225
Groundwater and Dependent Ecosystems: New Scientific and Technological Basis for
Assessing Climate Change and Land-use Impacts on Groundwater (GENESIS)
GEOCARBON 119
Operational Global Carbon Observing System
GEONETCAB 41
GEO Network for Capacity Building
GHG-EUROPE 121
Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems
GHG-TRANSPORD 365
Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions of transport beyond 2020: linking R&D, transport
policies and reduction targets
GP 367
COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: Political economy of Green Paradoxes
GRACE 123
Genetic Record of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
GREENSEAS 43
Development of global plankton data base and model system for eco-climate early warning
GROOM 45
Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation and Management
H
HEALTHY FUTURES 297
Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and
anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa
HERMIONE 227
Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man’s Impact on European Seas
HIGHNOON 368
Adaptation to Changing Water Resources Availability in Northern India with respect to
Himalayan Glacier Retreat and Changing Monsoon Pattern
HURRICANE 299
Past hurricane activity reconstructed using cave deposits: Have humans increased
storm risk?
HYPOX 47
In situ monitoring of oxygen de-pletion in hypoxic ecosystems of coastal and open
seas, and land-locked water bodies
HYRAX 49
Rock Hyrax Middens and Climate Change in Southern Africa during the last 50,000
years
I
IAGOS-ERI 167
In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System – European Research Infrastructure
ICAD 370
Advancing Knowledge Systems to Inform Climate Adaptation Decisions
ICARUS 372
Innovation for Climate chAnge mitigation: a study of energy R&d, its Uncertain
effectiveness and Spillovers
ICE 51
Laboratory and modelling studies of ice nucleation and crystallisation in the Earth’s
atmosphere
ICE2SEA 229
Ice2sea – estimating the future contribution of continental ice to sea-level rise
ICE&LASERS 124
Innovative Concepts for Extracting climate and atmospheric composition records from
polar ice cores using new LASER Sensors
ICEMASS 52
Global Glacier Mass Continuity
ICEPROXY 53
Novel Lipid Biomarkers from Polar Ice: Climatic and Ecological Applications
ICEPURE 231
Impact of Climatic and Environmental Factors on Personal Ultraviolet Radiation
Exposure and Human Health
ICOS 125
Integrated Carbon Observing System
IMPACT2C 233
Quantifying projected impacts under 2°C warming
IMPLICC 374
Implications and risks of engineering solar radiation to limit climate change
IMPRINTS 300
Improving Preparedness and Risk Management for Flash Floods and Debris Flow Events
INCREASE 235
An Integrated Network on Climate REsearch Activities on Shrubland Ecosystems
INDO-MARECLIM 54
Indo-european Research Facilities for Studies on Marine ecosystem and climate in India
INGOS 127
Integrated Non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observing System
INTERACT 56
International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic
IPCCAR5 302
Support in Preparation of the IPCC 5th Assesment Report
I-REDD+ 376
Impacts of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and
Enhancing Carbon Stocks (I-REDD+)
ISEFOR 237
Increasing Sustainability of European Forests
IS-ENES2 58
Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System Modelling – Phase 2
ITOP 60
Integrating Theory and Observations over the Pleistocene
J
JPI CLIMATE CSA 62
Joint Programming Initiative Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe – Coordination
and Support Action
K
KNOW-4-DRR 303
Enabling Knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change
adaptation
KULTURISK 305
Knowledge-Based Approach To Develop A Culture Of Risk Prevention
L
LAGOONS 378
Integrated water resources and coastal zone management in European lagoons in the
context of climate change
LIMITS 380
Low climate IMpact scenarios and the Implications of required Tight emission control
Strategies
LONG-TERM RISKS 382
Evaluation and Management of Collective long-term risks
M
MACROCLIMATE 239
Quantitative dynamic macroeconomic analysis of global climate change and inequality
MATRICS 64
Modern Approaches to Temperature Reconstructions in polar Ice Core
MEDIATION 383
Methodology for Effective Decision-making on Impacts and AdaptaTION
MEDSEA 66
Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate (MedSeA)
MEECE 241
Marine Environmental Evolution in a Changing Environment
MEGAPOLI 169
Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate
effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation
MESMA 243
Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas
MESOAQUA 68
Network of leading MESOcosm facilities to advance the studies of future AQUAtic
ecosystems from the Arctic to the Mediterranean
MICORE 307
Morphological Impacts and Coastal Risks by extreme storm events
MOCAPAF 171
Role of Molecular Cluster in Atmospheric Particle Formation
MODES 70
Modal analysis of atmospheric balance, predictability and climate
MOTIVE 385
MOdels for AdapTIVE forest Management (MOTIVE)
MOVE 309
Methods for the Improvement Vulnerability Assessment in Europe
MOWE-IT 311
Management of weather events in transport system
N
NACLIM 71
North Atlantic Climate: Predictability of the climate in the North Atlantic/European
sector related to North Atlantic/Arctic sea surface temperature and sea ice variability
and change
NAMASTE 73
Thermodynamics of the Climate System
O
OFFICAIR 245
On the reduction of health effects from combined exposure to indoor air pollutants in
modern offices
P
PACEMAKER 75
Past Continental Climate Change:
Temperatures from Marine and Lacustrine Archives
PAGE21 76
Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century
PANACEA 129
Predicting and monitoring the long-term behavior of CO2 injected in deep geological
formations
PAST4FUTURE 78
Climate change – Learning from the past climate
PEGASOS 172
Pan-European Gas-Aerosol-Climate Interaction Study
PESM 80
Towards the Prototype Probabilistic Earth-System Model
PHOXY 82
Phosphorus dynamics in low-oxygen marine
PHYTOCHANGE 84
New Approaches to Assess the Responses of Phytoplankton to Global Change
PLANETS 387
Probabilistic Long-Term Assessment of New Technology Scenarios
PLIO-ESS 85
Pliocene Constraints on Earth System Senstivity (Plio-ESS)
POEM 389
Policy Options to engage Emerging Asian economies in a post-Kyoto regime
POLIMP 391
Mobilizing and transferring knowledge on post-2012 climate policy implications
POPFULL 131
System analysis of a bio-energy plantation: full greenhouse gas balance and energy
accounting
PROMITHEAS-4 393
Knowledge transfer and research needs for preparing mitigation/adaptation policy
portfolios
Q
QUAERERE 174
Quantifying Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Effects by Regime
QUASOM 133
Quantifying and modeling pathways of soil organic matter as affected by abiotic
factors, microbial dynamics, and transport processes
QWECI 247
Quantifying Weather and Climate Impacts on Health in Developing Countries
R
RAMSES 395
Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for Cities
RECONCILE 175
Reconciliation of essential process parameters for an enhanced predictability of arctic
stratospheric ozone loss and its climate interactions
REDD-ALERT 397
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation through Alternative Landuses
in Rainforests of the Tropics (REDD-ALERT)
RESPONSES 399
European responses to climate change: deep emissions reductions and mainstreaming
of mitigation and adaptation (RESPONSES)
RISCS 134
Research into Impacts and Safety in CO2 Storage
ROBIN 401
The Role of Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation in Latin America (ROBIN)
ROOTOPOWER 312
Empowering root-targeted strategies to minimize abiotic stress impacts on horticultural
crops
RUMINOMICS 249
Connecting the animal genome, gastrointestinal microbiomes and nutrition to improve
digestion efficiency and the environmental impacts of ruminant livestock production
S
SAFELAND 314
Living with Landslide Risks in Europe
SAFEWIND 403
Multi-scale data assimilation, advanced wind modelling and forecasting with an
emphasis on extreme weather situations for safe large-scale wind power integration
SEFIRA 316
Socio Economic implications For Individual Responses to Air pollution policies in EU+27
SHIVA 177
Stratospheric ozone: Halogen Impacts in a Varying Atmosphere
Instrument: FP7, Collaborative-Project: Small or medium-scale focused research
project
SIDERI 179
Strengthening International Dimension of Euro-Argo Research Infrastructure
SIOS-PP 87
Svalbard Integrated Earth Observing System- Preparatory Phase
Instrument: Construction of New Research Infrastructures - Preparatory Phase
SIP-VOL+ 181
Stress-Induced Volatiles in Biosphere-Atmosphere System
SPECS 405
Seasonal-to-decadal climate Prediction for the improvement of European Climate
Services
STAR-FLOOD 318
Strengthening And Redesigning European FLOOD risk practices: Towards appropriate
and resilient flood risk governance arrangements
T
3ENCULT 260
Efficient ENergy for EU Cultural Heritage
T - FORCES 136
Tropical Forests in the Changing Earth System
THOR 89
Thermohaline overturning - at risk?
TITAN 91
Transition Into the Anthropocene
TOPDAD 407
ToPDAd Tool-Supported Policy-Development for Regional Adaptation
TRACE 320
Tephra Constraints on Rapid Climate Events (TRACE)
TRANSPHORM 251
Transport related Air Pollution and Health impacts- Integrated Methodologies for
Assessing Particulate Matter
TREES4FUTURE 409
Designing Trees for the Future
U
UNDERSERT 411
Understanding and combating desertification to mitigate its impact on ecosystem
services
URGENCHE 137
Urban Reduction of GHG Emissions in China and Europe
V
VIROCLIME 253
Impact of Climate Change on The Transport, Fate, and Risk Management of Viral
Pathogens in Water
W
WASSERMED 255
Water Availability and Security in Southern EuRope and the Mediterranean
WRECKPROTECT 257
Strategies for the protection of shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea against forthcoming attack
by wood degrading marine borers. A synthesis and information project based on the
effects of climatic changes
X
XEROCHORE 321
An Exercise to Assess Research Needs and Policy Choices in Areas of Drought
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