Ocean-ICU Improving Carbon Understanding
ACRONYM
Ocean-ICU
Title
Ocean-ICU Improving Carbon Understanding
General information
Measuring and modelling the ocean carbon sink
Slowing the rate of climate change, the ocean acts as a carbon sink. It absorbs 25 % of the CO2 we emit to the atmosphere. While the ocean plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, it is not easy to measure and model carbon uptake. For instance, it is not possible yet to quantitatively link ocean carbon storage and direct human pressures like fishing and mineral extraction. In this context, the OceanICU project will measure these key processes and evaluate their overall significance, transferring those that are important into models that inform the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in order to resolve the observed model data mismatch of ocean carbon sink estimates. This is in line with the EU’s Green Deal commitments.
Start
November, 2022
End
October, 2027
Funding (total)
13094000
Funding (GEOMAR)
1600000
Funding body / Programme
-
EU
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Coordination
Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), Norway
Contact
Partners
Norce Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), Norway
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Bolding & Bruggeman APS, Denmark
Commissariat a L Energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA), France
Marine Institute, Ireland
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneosui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italien
Havforskningsinstituttet, Norway
World Maritime University, Sweden
Seascape Belgium, Belgium
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Universite d'Aix Marseille, France
Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten, Netherlands
Universitet i Bergen, Norway
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Germany
institut National d'Enseignement Superieur pour L'Agriculture, L'Alimentation et L'Environement, France
University of Galway, Ireland
Instituto do Mar (IMAR), Portugal
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Mercator Ocean, France
Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Bolding & Bruggeman APS, Denmark
Commissariat a L Energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA), France
Marine Institute, Ireland
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneosui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italien
Havforskningsinstituttet, Norway
World Maritime University, Sweden
Seascape Belgium, Belgium
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Universite d'Aix Marseille, France
Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
Stichting Nederlandse Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Instituten, Netherlands
Universitet i Bergen, Norway
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Germany
institut National d'Enseignement Superieur pour L'Agriculture, L'Alimentation et L'Environement, France
University of Galway, Ireland
Instituto do Mar (IMAR), Portugal
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Mercator Ocean, France
Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy
