Projects ended in 2005
PHOENICS: Particles of Human Origin Extinguish Natural solar Irradiance in the Climate System
January 2002- March 2005 (coordinator)
7 partners from 5
countries and JRC
Aerosols are complex ensembles of particles in the atmosphere of varying composition and size. Aerosols compromise human and ecosystem health, influence visibility, ozone and the global radiation budget, modify cloud properties, and are responsible for feedbacks on the hydrological cycle and for climate perturbation.
The European Union has put forward and implemented a number of policies and legislation to improve air quality and reduce anthropogenic climate change. Fundamental questions for this are: “
How and how much do aerosols affect climate? What is the contribution of European emissions to this impact?”The European Commission's PHOENICS project, supported under the 5th Framework Programme, aimed at answering these questions, and specifically made a rigorous evaluation of our knowledge of the magnitude and uncertainties of the
direct climate effect of multi-component mixed tropospheric aerosols.PHOENICS Integration and Synthesis Report, ISBN 960-88712-0-4 http://phoenics.chemistry.uoc.gr/synthesis
Major policy relevant outcomes of the project in the PHOENICS flyer.
Oxidizing capacity of the troposphere
UTOPIHAN-ACT: Upper Tropospheric Ozone: Processes Involving HOx and NOx. The impact of Aviation and Convectively Transported pollutants in the tropopause region
January 2002-December 2004 (principal investigator)
8 partners from 6 countries http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~reus/utopihan
MOST : Multiphase chemistry of Oxygenated Species in the Troposphere
December 2001- May 2005 (principal investigator)
11 partners from 8 countries http://lace.univ-lyon1.fr/most
Bilateral collaboration project Germany- Greece:
"Biomass burning over the Mediterranean region"
(Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, 2005-2007)
Participants: ECPL-Univ. Crete, IUP-Univ. of Bremen, Germany
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