Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic: Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems, and Societies

HIARC

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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

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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.

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Duration

48 months

Call Date

May 1, 2014

Project Award Date

2014