Project

Interdisciplinary Modelling of Climate Change in Coastal Western Antarctica ‒ Network for Staff Exchange and Training

Acronym
IMCONet
Code
41S07812
Duration
01 February 2013 → 31 January 2017
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Ecology
    • Environmental science and management
    • Other environmental sciences
Keywords
climate change
 
Project description

The proposed European-US and South American network IMCONet will advance climate and (eco- ) system change research at the Western Antartic Peninsula (WAP), a region of recent rapid aerial warming. WAP glaciers contribute to global sea level rise, and functioning and services of coastal ecosystems are massively threatened by the fast regional warming. Data sets from recent interdisciplinary European-South American field work within ESF-IMCOAST and from the jubany scientific core programme at King George Island (KGI) will be connected and cross-validated with southern stations on WAP