Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic: Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems, and Societies
HIARC
Call
- Arctic 1
Project Website
Principal Investigator
Igor Esau, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
Partners
Anna Kurchatova, Institute of the Earth’s Cryosphere, Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch, Russia Marlene Laruelle, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, United States Martin Miles, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, United States
Funders
- NSF (National Science Foundation), RCN (Research Council of Norway), RFBR (Russian Foundation for Basic Research)
Project Objective
The ambitions of HIARC are to combine high-resolution meteorological observations, satellite, modelling data with societal data, economical output and qualitative narratives of the ongoing changes and threats coming from the cultural perspectives. HIARC should improve our understanding of the environmental impact of the heat pollution and urbanization, as well as they will help to produce more accurate and more policy relevant projects of the arctic changes on the adaptation time scales up to 2050 and beyond. HIARC addresses the problem of broader impact of the arctic urbanization looking at: adaptation of biomedical responses among migrants; urban dynamics, socio-cultural development and conflicts; feedbacks between environmental and climate changes over the longer historical perspective.
Call Objective
Through this Call for Proposals on Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability, the Belmont Forum seeks to bring together integrated teams of natural scientists, social scientists, and stakeholders to develop projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, data sets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region across one or more of four possible themes.
Region
- Arctic
Country
Duration
48 months
Call Date
May 1, 2014
Project Award Date
2014