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New constraints on the Amazonian carbon balance from airborne observations of the stable isotopes of CO2 (ASICA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Severe droughts in Amazonia in 2005 and 2010 caused widespread loss of carbon from the terrestrial biosphere. This loss, almost twice the annual fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the EU, suggests a large sensitivity of the Amazonian carbon balance to a predicted more intense drought regime in the next decades. This is a dangerous inference though, as there is no scientific consensus on the most basic m ...
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Seasonal-to-decadal climate Prediction for the improvement of European Climate Services (SPECS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sponsored the Global Framework on Climate Services (GFCS) where the need for actionable climate information for periods from several months up to several years for economic, industrial and political planning has been expressed. However, progress in seasonal forecasting has been slow and decadal forecasting is still incipient. At the same time, new model ...
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A framework for enhancing EO capacity for Agriculture and Forest Management in Africa as a contribution to GEOSS (AGRICAB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

AGRICAB aims to strengthen Earth Observation (EO) capacities in Africa by building on the open data sharing through GEONETCast, connecting the available satellite and other data with predictive models in order to facilitate integration in agriculture and forestry planning and management processes. Dedicated national applications in various African countries are designed to address particular polic ...
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Raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and long-term land use change in the Amazon (AMAZALERT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

AMAZALERT will enable raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate, society, land-use change, vegetation change, water availability and policies in Amazonia. We will:1) analyze and improve coupled models of global climate and Amazon, land use, vegetation and socio-economic drivers to quantify anthropogenic and climate induced land-use and land cover change and non-linear, irreversibl ...
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GEOSS interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water (GEOWOW)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

GEOWOW (GEOSS Interoperability for Weather, Ocean and Water) is the responds to call ENV.2011.4.1.3-1 Inter-operable integration of shared Earth Observations in the Global Context.The objectives of GEOWOW are to:• Propose and validate a distributed architectural model federating Earth observation and other Earth Science data holdings, including specific communities’ infrastructures, and put this m ...
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Merging Hydrologic models and EO data for reliable information on Water (MyWater)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

In the entire world we are experiencing changing water resources needs mainly as a result of changes in land use. In developing countries the occupation of natural areas by agriculture is a major cause; economical reasons pushed by world globalization play also a major role. In both cases further global changes are expected as a result of climate change.Water availability is essential for socio-ec ...
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Science based remote sensing services to support REDD and sustainable forest management in tropical region (ReCover)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

ReCover project will develop beyond state-of-the-art service capabilities to support fighting deforestation and forest degradation in the tropical region. The pilot service capabilities mean provision of a monitoring system of forest cover and forest cover changes and biomass including a robust accuracy assessment. The capabilities are based on utilizing mainly space-borne earth observation data a ...
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Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth system for better climate prediction and projection (COMBINE)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

"The European integrating project COMBINE brings together research groups to advance Earth system models (ESMs) for more accurate climate projections and for reduced uncertainty in the prediction of climate and climate change in the next decades. COMBINE will contribute to better assessments of changes in the physical climate system and of their impacts in the societal and economic system. The pro ...
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Sustainable Irrigation water management and River-basin governance: Implementing User-driven Services (SIRIUS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"SIRIUS addresses efficient water resource management in water-scarce environments. It focuses in particular on water for food production with the perspective of a sustainable agriculture in the context of integrated river-basin management, including drought management. It aims at developing innovative and new GMES service capacities for the user community of irrigation water management and susta ...
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A Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies in La Plata Basin (CLARIS LPB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The CLARIS LPB Project aims at predicting the regional climate change impacts on La Plata Basin (LPB) in South America, and at designing adaptation strategies for land-use, agriculture, rural development, hydropower production, river transportation, water resources and ecological systems in wetlands. In order to reach such a goal, the project has been built on the following four major thrusts. F ...
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E-SCIENCE GRID FACILITY FOR EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA (EELA-2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

EELA-2 aims to build, on the current EELA e-Infrastructure, a high capacity, production-quality, scalable Grid Facility providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources for a wide spectrum of applications from European and Latin American scientific communities. The project will provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile services fulfilling ...
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