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Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC), Italy

Our partners in the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change Foundation are developing an innovative fully-coupled modelling system (atmosphere-ocean-hydrology-biochemistry-waves) for the Adriatic Sea with the aim to downscale the impacts of climate change along the Adriatic coast, including sea level changes and extreme events, and to facilitate the implementation of adaptation plans. They are also working on improving the representation of the land-sea interaction at the river mouths by using an intermediate complexity box model to solve the estuarine water exchange. Plans include testing the hybrid statistical-dynamical downscaling approaches.

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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

FLAME partners in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation will employ a high-resolution ocean model that includes the coupling of ocean physics and biogeochemistry, waves, rivers and sediments to downscale the impacts of climate change in the Great Barrier Reef. This ocean model will also be coupled with an interactive atmosphere model and used to study cloud brightening as an adaptation technique to save the Great Barrier Reef.

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Marine Environmental Observation Prediction & Response network (MEOPAR), Canada (Prediction Core)

The Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) is a national Network of Centres of Excellence linking top marine researchers and highly qualified personnel across Canada with partner organizations and communities. The Prediction Core aims to develop and maintain the capacity of the network to improve and deliver tools and highly qualified personnel that will enable support Canada’s leadership in marine environmental prediction. Using the NEMO model, groups run global and regional coupled ocean-sea ice, physics-biogeochemistry models with a broad focus in the North Atlantic and the Arctic.

This partnership aims to downscale climate projections in the Arctic, the Labrador Sea, the Baffin Bay and the Hudson Bay with focus on the effects of small-scale processes. This partnership is also building tools to support rapid implementation of relocatable regional NEMO models on coastal regions around the world.

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University of Calabria, Italy

The research interest of our partners at the University of Calabria lies in the representation of coastal water cycles in regional models, local hydrological impacts of climate change, and projections of the river outflow in terms of their effect on regional ecosystems. In partnership with CMCC, they are developing atmosphere-ocean-hydrology coupling approaches for delivering climate projections in the Adriatic Sea.

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Mercator Ocean International, Italy

Our partners at Mercator Ocean International develop climate projections of the marine environment for the north-eastern Atlantic ocean, North Sea and western Mediterranean Sea. A focus has been given so far to projected changes of mean and extreme sea levels (including waves), including a better understanding of their drivers. 

Dynamically-downscaled climate projections are being extended to the marine biogeochemistry and marine ecosystems realms to provide refined information on future changes of the marine environment and related impacts at regional to local scales, fundamental for climate policy and decision making.

Activities on ocean climate projections at Mercator Ocean International are also related to the long-term evolution of the Copernicus Marine Service and European Digital Twin of the Ocean, and to other programmatic frameworks, including FORESEA in the UN Decade of the Ocean.

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