West African Coastal Ocean - Finescale physics, biogeochemistry and climate change

Projektinformationen

WACO

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 749699

DOI 10.3030/749699

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 10 November 2017

Startdatum 1 März 2018

Enddatum 29 Februar 2020

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Gesamtkosten € 173 076,00

EU-Beitrag € 173 076,00

Koordiniert durch

SORBONNE UNIVERSITE
France

Ziel

Coastal oceans are essential to our societies but their health status is degrading rapidly in many parts of the world. Anticipating or remedying environmental evolutions/degradations, including those resulting from global changes, is particularly difficult. This is largely because the knowledge and information we currently have on the ocean functioning do not encompass scales finer than a few tens of kilometers, which is notably insufficient close to shores. WACO will clarify the role of fine-scale processes (turbulent and wave processes with scales < 10 km) in the present-day functioning and future evolutions of the West African coastal dynamics and biogeochemistry. To do so, it will take advantage of a new generation of ocean models that is truly apt to simulate coastal dynamics/biogeochemistry/ecosystems in a fully integrated and multi-scale manner. Precisely, the project will be focused on the senegalese and mauritanian coastal oceans from which state-of-the-art ocean observations are available to complement and evaluate the modelling effort, a robust and interdisciplinary collaborative framework, and unmatched opportunities for social benefits of the research. The project relies on a massively parallel computing plan that will serve as a demanding training ground for the applicant. Overall WACO will contribute to a deeper understanding of climate change, which is a key goal of EU research.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › geochemistry › biogeochemistry

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Thema/Themen

• MSCA-IF-2016 - Individual Fellowships

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-MSCA-IF-2016

Finanzierungsplan

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Koordinator

SORBONNE UNIVERSITE

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 173 076,00
• Adresse: 21 RUE DE L'ECOLE DE MEDECINE ; 75006 Paris ; Frankreich
• Region: Ile-de-France › Ile-de-France › Paris
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 173 076,00