COMFORT – Our common future ocean in the Earth system – quantifying coupled cycles of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients for determining and achieving safe operating spaces with respect to tipping points

COMFORT wants to close knowledge gaps for key ocean tipping elements within the Earth system under anthropogenic physical and chemical climate forcing through a coherent interdisciplinary research approach. It aims to provide added value to decision and policy makers in terms of science based safe marine operating spaces, refined climate mitigation targets, and feasible long-term mitigation pathways. The project focuses on the triple threat of (1) warming, (2) deoxygenation, and (3) ocean acidification, and how to optimally deal with this threat.

Details

Status:

Supported by BayFOR:

Research Focus:

  • Agriculture / Fisheries / Bioeconomy
  • Climate
  • Peace and Security

Project Coordination:

University of Bergen
(UiB)

Other Partners:

Stockholms Universitet, Sweden Internationales Institut für Angewandte Systemanalyse, Austria Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland Universität Bern, Switzerland Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung EV, Germany Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (Geomar), Germany Universität Bremen, Germany University of Hamburg, Germany Universidad De Las Palmas De Gran Canari, Spain Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain Commissariat A L Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives, France Ecole Normale Superieure, France Collecte Localisation Satellites, France METEO-FRANCE, France Hafrannsoknastofnun, Rannsokna- Og Radgjafarstofnun Hafs Og Vatna, Iceland Havforskningsinstituttet, Norway Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway Norce Norwegian Research Centre AS, Norway Stiftelsen Nansen Senter For Miljoog Fjernmaling, Norway Goeteborgs Universitet, Sweden Sveriges Meteorologiska Och Hydrologiska Institut, Sweden Plymouth Marine Laboratory Limited, United Kingdom University of East Anglia, United Kingdom The University of Exeter, United Kingdom University of Lancaster, United KIngdom Dalhousie University, Canada Nansen Environmental Research Centre (India) LTD, India National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom

Countries:

Germany (Bavaria), South Africa

Funding Agency:

European Union (EU)

Funding Type:

H2020

Duration:

01/09/2019
31/08/2023

Budget:

8191663 EUR

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