Globally Observed Teleconnections and their Role and Representation in Hierarchies of Atmospheric Models

GOTHAM

Call

  • Climate

Project Website

http://belmont-gotham.org/

Principal Investigator

Lesley Gray, University of Oxford and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, United Kingdom

Partners

Shingo Watanabe, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan Francois Lott, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France Krishnan Raghavan, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India Ramesh Vellore, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India Reik Donner, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Dim Coumou, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Bo Wu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China David Wallom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Eric Guilyardi, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France

Funders

  • ANR (The French National Research Agency), BMBF/DLR-PT (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council), NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China)

Project Objective

GOTHAM represents an ambitious research program to gain robust, relevant and transferable knowledge of past and present day patterns and trends of regional climate extremes and variability of vulnerable areas identified by the IPCC, including the tropics and high-latitudes.

Call Objective

This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Major impediments indeed still exist having efficient climate services at regional and local level, because of little or poorly understood climate processes (in part caused by a paucity of observations), inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large.

Region

Country

Duration

48 months

Call Date

2015

Project Award Date

2015