Skip to main content
EnglishEN
European Commission logo print header

European integrated project on Aerosol cloud Climate and Air quality interactions

Objective

The European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality Interactions, EUCAARI, brings together the leading European research groups, state-of-the-art infrastructure and key players from third countries to investigate the role of aerosol on climate and air quality.

The objectives of EUCAARI are:
(I) Reduction of the current uncertainty of the impact of aerosol particles on climate by 50% and quantification of the relationship between anthropogenic aerosol particles and regional air quality, and
(II)Quantification of the side effects of European air quality directives on global and regional climate, and provide tools for future quantifications for different stakeholders.

EUCAARI will also contribute to technological developments in the aerosol measurement industry, enhancing future experiments and air-quality monitoring networks. The project is organised into four scientific elements designed to maximize the integration of methodologies, scales and ultimately our understanding of air quality and climate. New ground-based, aircraft and satellite measurements will be integrated with existing data to produce a global consistent dataset with the highest possible accuracy. A European measurement campaign will be designed around simultaneous multi-station observations, Lagrangian aircraft measurements and carefully selected "super-sites".

A hierarchy of models will be developed based on the results of the laboratory and theoretical investigations. The models will be used to interpret the measurements and will be integrated in regional air quality and global climate models. The result will be measurable improvements in the project's climate and air quality models. The outcomes (scenarios, recommendations, models, harmonized datasets and new knowledge) will be disseminated to authorities, policy makers, the research community, industry, instrument designers, and the EU-ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES).

Fields of science

Keywords

Programme(s)

Topic(s)

Call for proposal

FP6-2005-GLOBAL-4
See other projects for this call

Funding Scheme

IP - Integrated Project

Coordinator

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
EU contribution
No data
Address
Yliopistonkatu 4
HELSINKI
Finland

See on map
Links
Total cost
No data

Participants (46)

Share this page

Download

Last update: 10 March 2023

My Booklet

Permalink: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/36833

European Union, 2024