EUCLIPSE
"EU Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation Project"
| Coordinatore | KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS METEOROLOGISCH INSTITUUT-KNMI
Organization address
address: UTRECHTSEWEG 297 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Netherlands [NL] |
| Totale costo | 4˙985˙600 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙500˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2009-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-02-01 - 2014-07-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS METEOROLOGISCH INSTITUUT-KNMI
Organization address
address: UTRECHTSEWEG 297 contact info |
NL (DE BILT) | coordinator | 702˙000.00 |
| 2 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 449˙000.00 |
| 3 |
MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
Organization address
address: Hofgartenstrasse 8 contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 425˙000.00 |
| 4 |
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Organization address
address: Stevinweg 1 contact info |
NL (DELFT) | participant | 337˙000.00 |
| 5 |
ACADEMY OF ATHENS
Organization address
address: Panepistimiou Ave. 28 contact info |
EL (ATHENS) | participant | 292˙000.00 |
| 6 |
METEO-FRANCE
Organization address
address: AVENUE DE PARIS 73 contact info |
FR (SAINT MANDE CEDEX) | participant | 289˙000.00 |
| 7 |
EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS
Organization address
address: Shinfield Park contact info |
UK (READING) | participant | 272˙000.00 |
| 8 |
DEUTSCHES KLIMARECHENZENTRUM GMBH
Organization address
address: BUNDESSTRASSE 45A contact info |
DE (HAMBURG) | participant | 256˙000.00 |
| 9 |
MET OFFICE
Organization address
address: FitzRoy Road contact info |
UK (EXETER) | participant | 202˙000.00 |
| 10 |
STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Universitetsvaegen 10 contact info |
SE (STOCKHOLM) | participant | 124˙000.00 |
| 11 |
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH
Organization address
address: Raemistrasse 101 contact info |
CH (ZUERICH) | participant | 81˙000.00 |
| 12 |
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI
Organization address
address: Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 contact info |
PL (WARSAW) | participant | 71˙000.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Cloud feedbacks remain the largest source of uncertainty in projections of future climate. They are also a major contributor to uncertainty in other feedbacks (e.g., surface albedo, carbon cycle) in the Earth System. Through interactions with the large-scale circulation, cloud processes also contribute to synoptic circulations and regional climate. They are therefore critical to the prediction of future changes in precipitation patterns, climate variability and extreme events. The central objective of EUCLIPSE is to reduce the uncertainty in the representation of cloud processes and feedbacks in the new generation of Earth System Models (ESMs), in support of the IPCC's fifth assessment report. Novel, process-oriented evaluations of clouds in present-day and future climate simulations made by the leading European ESMs will identify the cloud types and processes responsible for the spread in climate sensitivity and future precipitation changes across the models, and for deficiencies in the simulation of the present-day climate. The new diagnostics and metrics developed in EUCLIPSE will inform targeted sensitivity experiments to isolate the processes responsible for cloud feedback uncertainty. In EUCLIPSE, four distinct communities will work together across a set of integrated work packages over a four-year period: the observational community will provide state-of-the-art measurements from ground- and space-based active and passive remote sensing; the numerical weather prediction community will provide analyses of short timescale model biases induced by cloud processes; the cloud modeling community will provide fine-scale models as an additional tool for understanding cloud behavior in a changing climate; finally, the climate modeling community will synthesize the physical understanding and observational constraints identified by the other communities to improve the representation and assessment of cloud processes in ESMs and so improve the predictive skill of ESMs.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Clouds and cloud cover create a lot of uncertainty in climate models as their effects are difficult to quantify or predict. A new project is developing novel ways to measure clouds and their impact in order to overcome this uncertainty.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Recent studies of climate models have shown that clouds are introducing a large amount of uncertainty into Earth System Models (ESMs), the most common climate change model. Without dependable cloud data, these models are vague and have low predictive power.
To address this problem, the EU is funding the project 'EU cloud intercomparison, process study and evaluation project' (EUCLIPSE). This study brings together meteorologists and climate modelling experts.
The project aims to improve modelled cloud behaviour, to develop a way to measure the accuracy of cloud effects, and to better define the parameters of cloud processes in ESMs. Another part of the project will focus on how clouds react to climate change in the physical world.
EUCLIPSE has implemented the use of a new cloud simulator for ESMs that provides improved data for the modelling, as well as new evaluation tools to check the output of these models. The physical study of cloud formation and interaction has begun, and data from this study has reduced bias in the models used.
Future work will focus on creating standard diagnostics to evaluate the effect of clouds on climate models. The work of EUCLIPSE will help to predict climate change more accurately as well as improve our understanding of the phenomenon.