REQUA

Regional climate-air quality interactions

Coordinatore	ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS    more  Organization address address: Administration Building, University Campus city: THESSALONIKI postcode: 54124 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Georgia Cognome: Petridou Email: send email Telefono: +30 2310998428 Fax: 302311000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	273˙000 €
EC contributo	273˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES
Funding Scheme	MC-IRSES
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-12-01   -   2017-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS  Organization address address: Administration Building, University Campus city: THESSALONIKI postcode: 54124 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Georgia Cognome: Petridou Email: send email Telefono: +30 2310998428 Fax: 302311000000	EL (THESSALONIKI)	coordinator	113˙400.00
2	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS GEODESY AND GEOGRAPHY - BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES  Organization address address: UL. ACAD G BONCHEV BL 3 city: SOFIA postcode: 1113 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Kostadin Cognome: Ganev Email: send email Telefono: +35 929793307 Fax: +35 929713005	BG (SOFIA)	participant	58˙800.00
3	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE  Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Brooke Cognome: Alasya Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 594 1181 Fax: +44 207 594 1418	UK (LONDON)	participant	54˙600.00
4	UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION -UNESCO  Organization address address: PLACE DE FONTENOY 7 city: PARIS postcode: 75352 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Susanne Cognome: Henningsen Email: send email Telefono: +39 0402240426 Fax: +39 0402240449	FR (PARIS)	participant	46˙200.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Air quality is strongly dependent on weather and is therefore sensitive to climate variability and climate change. On the other hand, air pollution affects the atmospheric composition which in turn affects the earth's radiative budget and the earth's climate. Hence the climate and the air quality are intimately interactive parts of the earth's system and the feedbacks between them can act to amplify or dampen climate sensitivity. These complex interactions are not well understood but are critical to the behavior of the system as a whole and should be taken into consideration into the design of effective policies. The REQUA project aims at strengthening the research partnership through staff exchanges and networking activities between research groups in Europe, USA and China working in the field of regional climate-air quality interactions. The general scientific goal is to advance the current understanding of interactions between different components of the earth system. The project will be based on two regional chemistry-climate models, one developed in USA and one in Europe: (i) WRF-CMAQ, a well established online modeling system, and (ii) RegCM-CHEM, an integrated regional climate model with a reduced chemical scheme. The consortium consists of a team of 8 partners, namely 4 EU research teams (from Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and UK) and 4 from third countries (USA and China). All participants have extensive experience in different aspects of air quality/climate interactions, combining different aspects expressed by different skills, tools and equipment. Most of the partners have already developed some collaboration, however the consortium is novel. The planned activities include joint research work, workshops, training courses and seminars. All activities are designed to exploit complementary expertise of the participants and to create synergies between them. They are also planned to create additional benefits for the participants in terms of transfer of knowledge.'