Arctic Observing and Science for Sustainability

该奖项为参与由14个国家发起的全球变化研究计划通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选定的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙论坛是一个高级别的世界组织，S是全球环境变化研究和国际科学理事会的主要和新兴资助者。其目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的主题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这一合作研究行动中，合作机构为利用现有北极观测系统、数据集和模型评估北极地区关键的可持续挑战和机遇的研究项目提供支持，为应对这些挑战和机遇创新可持续科学理论和方法，并支持实现可持续北极环境的决策。该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中的合作提供支持，该财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和最终用户(例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业)聚集在一起。北极雾的可变性合作研究工作将根据最近的海冰可变性，并在人们对过境北极的替代商业航运路线日益感兴趣的背景下，研究雾的时空可变性。中国、美国、加拿大和意大利调查人员之间的这一合作将利用现有的现场和卫星环境信息以及导航和经济数据，并在仲夏雾发生高峰期对雾变量进行岸基和船基采样。将进行一系列模拟实验，以确定未来可能产生雾的辐射和气象条件，并确定给定某些典型浓度路径情景下通过北极的船只的潜在路线。最后，经济影响的范围将基于一系列变量，使用欧洲和亚洲之间的集装箱船的真实案例研究来确定。该项目将天文学家、建模人员和包括航运公司在内的最终用户团结在一起，以便更好地了解北极水域不断变化的作业条件，以便更知情地开展活动。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 14-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the world?s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support for research projects that utilize existing Arctic observing systems, datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the Arctic region, to innovate new sustainability science theory and approaches to these challenges and opportunities, and support decision-making towards a sustainable Arctic environment. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries and that bring together natural scientists, social scientists and end users (e.g., policy makers, regulators, NGOs, communities and industry). The Arctic Fog Variability collaborative research effort will study the spatiotemporal variability of fog in light of recent sea ice variability and in the context of increasing interest in alternative commercial shipping routes that would transit the Arctic. This partnership between Chinese, US, Canadian, and Italian investigators will utilize available in situ and satellite environmental information and navigational and economic data as well as conduct shore-based and ship-based sampling of fog variables during the peak of fog occurrence in mid-summer. A series of modeling experiments will be conducted to determine future radiative and meteorological conditions that would induce fog and determine the potential routes of vessels through the Arctic given certain Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios. Finally, the envelope of economic impact will be determined based on a suite of variables using real-life case studies for container vessels traveling between Europe and Asia. This project unites observationalists, modelers, and end-users, including shipping companies, towards a better understanding of changing operational conditions for more informed activity in Arctic waters.