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Project title

CE2COAST: Downscaling Climate and Ocean Change to Services: Thresholds and Opportunities

Primary Funding Agency

Marine Institute

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway

Lead Applicant

n/a

Project Abstract

At the core of the project is the coordinated assemblage and analysis of observational and modelling data to deliver state, trends and variability of pressures on ocean services resulting from ocean and coastal climate and biogeochemical change at the European and global scale. The primary novelty of CE2COAST will be an observation-driven synthesis of statistical and dynamical downscaling methodology to provide better process resolution and system representations that are tailored to regional/coastal domains and their associated pressures/services. Key novelties include an ambition to evaluate the capacity of observations, earth system and regional models to capture trends in statistical variability/extreme events as well as mean states/fluxes, the use of state-of-the-art bias correction techniques for both ESMs and downscaling models, and a co-production approach that attempts to enhance scientific output and relevance through the project-long incorporation of stakeholder input and local observations.

Grant Approved

�400,000.00

Research Hub

n/a

Research Theme

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

Start Date

TBC (April 2020)

Initial Projected Completion Date

TBC (March 2023)