Num. Contratto:
815384

Coordinatore: CNR - CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (Italia)

Responsabile ENEA: FREZZOTTI MASSIMO - SSPT-PROTER-OEM (CASACCIA)

Ruolo ENEA: PARTNER

Sito Web: https://www.beyondepica.eu/

Programma Quadro: HORIZON 2020

Programma UE: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials - Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Area Tematica: Environment - climate change

Tipo Progetto: RIA - Research and Innovation Action

Descrizione:

To better constrain the long-term response of Earth's climate system to continuing greenhouse gas emissions, it is essential to turn to the past. A key advance would be to understand the shift in Earth's climate response to orbital forcing during the 'Mid-Pleistocene transition' [MPT, 900,000 (900 kyr) to 1.2 million years (1.2 Myr) ago], when a dominant 40 kyr cyclicity gave way to the current 100 kyr period. It is critical to understand the role of forcing factors and especially of greenhouse gases in this transition. Unravelling such key linkages between the carbon cycle, ice sheets, atmosphere and ocean behaviour is vital, assisting society to design an effective mitigation and adaptation strategy for climate change. Only ice cores contain direct and quantitative information about past climate forcing and atmospheric responses. However, the longest (EPICA) ice core record available to date covers only the last 800 kyr. The RIA Topic LC-CLA-08-2018 empowers the European ice core community to perform such an oldest ice core drilling and the project 'Beyond EPICA' is taking on this unique challenge and opportunity. The overarching scientific objective driving 'Beyond EPICA' is to obtain quantitative, high-resolution ice- core information on climate and environmental changes over the last 1.5 Myr. The cause and effect relationship that led to the enigmatic MPT change in the climate system is not understood yet, as important information on global changes in the climate system is still missing. Most of this information, including the phasing of these changes in the Earth System can only be derived from a continuous ice core from Antarctica covering the last 1.5 Myr. This proposal uses the planning derived during the recent BE-OI CSA, and offers an excellent team (the only team globally that could at present accept the challenge of the call), underpinned by excellent infrastructure and capacity, and is currently ensuring it has an excellent location for the core.

Attività svolta da ENEA:

L'ENEA è impegnata nel progetto attraverso l'Unità Tecnica Antartide che ha il compito di attuare le attività logistiche, integrandole nella più ampia e generale gestione delle spedizioni antartiche e della stazione concordia. Per gli aspetti scientifici del progetto l'Unità Tecnica Antartide si avvale del supporto del Dipartimento Sostenibilità dei sistemi produttivi e territoriali.

Note:

Posizione:
1553

Codice Atto:
PA0AAK

Atto di approvazione ENEA:
96/2019/PRES

Unità alla stipula:
SSPT-PROTER-OAC

Costo eleggibile del Progetto: 10.999.942,00

Contributo al Progetto: 10.999.942,00

---

Costo eleggibile per ENEA: 2.610.000,00

Contributo ad ENEA: 2.610.000,00

Anno di stipula:
2019

Durata in mesi:
72

Data di inizio:
01-06-2019

Data di scadenza:
31-05-2025