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Project Profile: GOTHAM

Globally Observed Teleconnections and their Role and Representation in Hierarchies of Atmospheric Models

Who?

Principal Investigators: Lesley Gray, University of Oxford and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, United Kingdom
Partners: Shingo Watanabe, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Francois Lott, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France
Krishnan Raghavan, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India
Ramesh Vellore, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India
Reik Donner, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Dim Coumou, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Bo Wu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China
David Wallom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Eric Guilyardi, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France
Sponsors: National Natural Science Foundation of China, China
French National Research Agency, France
Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany
Ministry of Earth Sciences, India
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
National Environment Research Council, United Kingdom

What?

Full Project Title: Globally Observed Teleconnections and their Role and Representation in Hierarchies of Atmospheric Models
Full Call Title: Climate2015
Website: http://belmont-gotham.org/

Why?

Project Objective: GOTHAM represents an ambitious research program to gain robust, relevant and transferable knowledge of past and present day patterns and trends of regional climate extremes and variability of vulnerable areas identified by the IPCC, including the tropics and high-latitudes.
Call Objective: This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Major impediments indeed still exist having efficient climate services at regional and local level, because of little or poorly understood climate processes (in part caused by a paucity of observations), inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large.

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When?

Duration: 48 months
Call Date: 2015
Project Award Date: 2015