Arctic Observing and Science for Sustainability

北极观测和科学促进可持续发展

• 批准号: 1536175
• 负责人: Ka-Kit Tung
• 金额: $ 45.1万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1536175&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Arctic; Observing; Science; Sustainability

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.

该奖项为参与一个项目的美国研究人员提供支持，该项目是由14个国家通过贝尔蒙特论坛在全球变化研究方面的一个倡议竞争性选择的。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个高层次的世界集团？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。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际环境研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团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。 这一方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国方法加以解决，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，伙伴机构为利用现有北极观测系统的研究项目提供了支持，该项目旨在利用数据集和模型来评估北极地区关键的可持续性挑战和机遇，创新新的可持续性科学理论和方法来应对这些挑战和机遇，并支持可持续北极环境的决策。 该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由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（例如，政策制定者、监管机构、非政府组织、社区和行业）。 北极雾变化性合作研究工作将根据最近海冰的变化性，并在对过境北极的替代商业航运路线日益感兴趣的背景下，研究雾的时空变化性。 中国、美国、加拿大和意大利调查人员之间的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间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，并确定船舶通过北极的潜在路线，给出某些代表性的浓度路径情景。 最后，经济影响的包络线将根据一套变量，使用现实生活中的案例研究，为欧洲和亚洲之间的集装箱船旅行。 该项目将观测者、建模者和最终用户（包括航运公司）联合起来，以更好地了解北极沃茨不断变化的运营条件，从而开展更知情的活动。