Arctic Observing and Science for Sustainability

该奖项为参与由贝尔蒙特论坛（Belmont Forum）发起的全球变化研究14国倡议竞争性选拔项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个世界性的高层组织。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。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速进行最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。每个伙伴国在一个联盟中为它们的研究人员提供资金，以减轻对跨越国际边界的资金的需求。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法解决，同时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性挑战和机遇的研究项目提供了支持，为应对这些挑战和机遇创新新的可持续性科学理论和方法，并为实现可持续北极环境的决策提供支持。该奖项将支持美国研究人员在至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作，并将自然科学家、社会科学家和最终用户（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。北极雾变率合作研究工作将根据最近的海冰变率，以及在人们对穿越北极的替代商业航运路线日益感兴趣的背景下，研究雾的时空变率。中国、美国、加拿大和意大利的调查人员将利用现有的现场和卫星环境信息、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，以确定未来可能引起雾的辐射和气象条件，并根据某些具有代表性的浓度路径情景确定船只通过北极的潜在路线。最后，经济影响的范围将根据一系列变量确定，这些变量使用了在欧洲和亚洲之间航行的集装箱船的真实案例研究。该项目将观测者、建模者和包括航运公司在内的最终用户联合起来，更好地了解北极水域不断变化的操作条件，以便更明智地开展活动。

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.