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:

  • inactive

Research Focus:

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

Project Coordination:

University of Bergen
(UiB)

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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