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Blue-Action

Arctic impact on weather and climate

Blue-Action is a 5-year European project of Horizon 2020 Blue Growth coordinated by the Danish Meteorological Institute with 41 partners. The objective of the project is to actively improve our ability to describe, model, and predict Arctic climate change and its impact on Northern Hemisphere climate, weather and their extremes, and to deliver valuated climate services of societal benefit.

A transdisciplinary approach

Blue-Action will provide fundamental and empirically-grounded, executable science that quantifies and explains the role of a changing Arctic in increasing predictive capability of weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere.To achieve this Blue- Action will take a transdisciplinary approach, bridging scientific understanding within Arctic climate, weather and risk management research, with key stakeholder knowledge of the impacts of climatic weather extremes and hazardous events; leading to the co-design of better services.

This bridge will build on innovative statistical and dynamical approaches to predict weather and climate extremes. In dialogue with users, Blue-Arctic will take stock in existing knowledge about cross-sectoral impacts and vulnerabilities with respect to the occurrence of these events when associated to weather and climate predictions. Modeling and prediction capabilities will be enhanced by targeting firstly, lower latitude oceanic and atmospheric drivers of regional Arctic changes and secondly, Arctic impacts on Northern Hemisphere climate and weather extremes. Coordinated multi-model experiments will be key to test new higher resolution model configurations, innovative methods to reduce forecast error, and advanced methods to improve uptake of new Earth observations assets are planned. Blue-Action thereby demonstrates how such an uptake may assist in creating better optimized observation system for various modelling applications.

Improved robust and reliable forecasting

The improved robust and reliable forecasting can help meteorological and climate services to better deliver tailored predictions and advice, including sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales, will take Arctic climate prediction beyond seasons and to teleconnections over the Northern Hemisphere. Blue-Action will through its concerted efforts therefore contribute to the improvement of climate models to represent Arctic warming realistically and address its impact on regional and global atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

Project website: http://www.blue-action.eu

Blue-Action is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme and specifically by the Blue-Growth BG-10-2016 call “Impact of Arctic changes on the weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere”.The Blue-Action project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 727852.

Participating organisations

Danish Meteorological Institute
University of Lapland
Netherlands eScience Center
Municipality of Almada
CNRS
CMCC
Yonsei University
DNV GL (Norway)
Danmarks Pelagiske Producentorganisation
EC-Earth
Environment & Sustainability
Environment & Sustainability
Blue Action
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Technical University of Denmark
Foresight Intelligence Johannes Gabriel und Martin Fröhlich GbR
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Havstovan
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Research Institute For Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
Institut Català de Ciències del Clima
Institute of World Economy and International Relations
German Marine Research Consortium
MEOPAR Incorporated
Mercator Ocean (France)
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Hafrannsoknastofnunin
Marine Scotland
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Natural Environment Research Council
Pelagic Freezer Trawler Association
Rukakeskus Oy
Scottish Association For Marine Science
Scripps Research Institute
SAMS Research Services Ltd
Universität Hamburg
University of Bergen
University of Southampton
University of Washington
University of Reading
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Norwegian Research Centre

Impact

Output

Team

SO
Steffen M. Olsen
Principal investigator
Danish Meteorological Institute
Gijs van den Oord
Gijs van den Oord
Senior RSE
Netherlands eScience Center
Jisk Attema
Senior eScience Research Engineer
Netherlands eScience Center
Yang Liu
Yang Liu
PhD student
Netherlands eScience Center
Ronald van Haren
Ronald van Haren
Netherlands eScience Center

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