Acronym PREFACE
Category
Fisheries
Title Enhancing prediction of tropical Atlantic climate and its impacts Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project (generic)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
ENVIRONMENT – Environment (including Climate change)
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Noel Keenlyside Coordinator email noel.keenlyside@gfi.uib.no
Coordinator institution
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway)
Institutions involved
BSC - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) ,
UNIVE - Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) ,
CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany) ,
UCM - Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) ,
CERFACS - European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (France) ,
IRD - French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (France) ,
GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (Germany) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
IOW - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (Germany) ,
MFMR - Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources (Namibia) ,
CNRM - National Center for Meteorological Research (France) ,
INRH - National Fisheries Research Institute (Morocco) ,
INIP - National Fisheries Research Institute (Angola) ,
INDP - National Institute for Fisheries Development (Cape Verde) ,
CRO - Oceanological Research Centre (Ivory Coast) ,
UPMC - Pierre and Marie Curie University (France) ,
ISRA - Senegalese Agricultural Research Institute (Senegal) ,
TI SF - Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries (Germany) ,
NA - Uni Research AS (Norway) ,
ULB - Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Belgium) ,
UCAD - University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (Senegal) ,
UAC - University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) ,
UB-IC3 - University of Barcelona; Catalan Institute ofClimate Sciences (Spain) ,
UCT - University of Cape Town (South Africa) ,
KU - University of Copenhagen (Denmark) ,
UNN - University of Nigeria (Nigeria) ,
NA - University of Reading (United Kingdom) ,
WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2017 Funding (€) € 12,170,345 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/603521/it Summary Tropical Atlantic climate recently experienced pronounced shifts of great socio-economic importance. The oceanic changes were largest in the eastern boundary upwelling systems. African countries bordering the Atlantic strongly depend upon their ocean - societal development, fisheries, and tourism. They were strongly affected by these climatic changes and will face important adaptation challenges associated with global warming. Furthermore, these upwelling regions are also of great climatic importance, playing a key role in regulating global climate. Paradoxically, the Tropical Atlantic is a region of key uncertainty in earth-climate system: state-of-the-art climate models exhibit large systematic error, climate change projections are highly uncertain, and it is largely unknown how climate change will impact marine ecosystems. PREFACE aims to address these interconnected issues, and has the following goals: • To reduce uncertainties in our knowledge of the functioning of Tropical Atlantic climate. • To improve climate prediction and the quantification of climate change impacts in the region. • To improve understanding of the cumulative effects of the multiple stressors of climate variability, greenhouse induced climate change, and fisheries on marine ecosystems, and ecosystem services (e.g., fisheries, coastal vulnerability). • To assess the socio-economic vulnerabilities and evaluate the resilience of Atlantic African fishing communities to climate-driven ecosystem shifts and global markets. To meet these goals we bring together European and African expertise to combine regional and global scale modelling capabilities, field experiments and observation systems. Our target region includes areas more affected by climate change and by its consequences, European outermost regions, and African countries bordering the Atlantic.
Keywords
Climate change;
Impacts;
Marine Region
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