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Project title

ACCAI: Decoding Arctic Climate Change: From Archive to Insight

Primary Funding Agency

Marine Institute

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)

Lead Applicant

n/a

Project Abstract

The research agenda proposed here for a postdoctoral fellowship is interdisciplinary, multi-themed, and takes a holistic approach to transform our understanding of how the signature of climate change (e.g. temperature, salinity, and the carbonate system) is recorded in the Nordic Seas and transferred into geologic archives. Given the uncertainties associated with available palaeoceanographic tools, we anticipate that our findings will provide a major advancement in the field of Palaeoceanography. Furthermore, we expect that the application of our calibrations to past changes in Arctic climate will improve validation experiments with general climate models to calibrate the response of the climate system to high magnitude changes in the Arctic. Given the growing consensus in the scientific community that current trends in Arctic amplification will increase the frequency of extreme weather events over northern mid-latitudes, we anticipate that our findings will have immediate implications for predicting future climate scenarios relevant to Ireland, Europe and beyond.

Grant Approved

�298,346.00

Research Hub

n/a

Research Theme

Ireland's Future Climate, its Impacts, and Adaptation Options

Start Date

TBC (June 2020 latest)

Initial Projected Completion Date

TBC (June 2023 latest)