From September 23 to 25, Antonio Novellino, R&D Manager in Smart&Sustainable Cities, and R&D Project Managers Mariaclaudia Paolini, Rachele Bordoni, and Alessandro Guida are participating in the Annual Project Meeting of the OCEAN:ICE project (Ocean Cryosphere Exchanges in ANtarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth System) being held in Copenhagen at the Danish Meteorological Institute.
Partners have gathered to discuss the progress made, current status of work, and project objectives.
OCEAN:ICE is a Horizon Europe initiative funded by the European Commission, which officially launched on November 1, 2022.
The main focus is evaluating the impact that climate change is having on planet Earth through studying environmental mechanisms occurring in the Antarctic Ocean. The latter, along with polar regions, is a valuable source of information as oceans are involved in heat and carbon dioxide exchanges. In polar areas, interactions between air, water, and ice develop, which are influenced by and influence Earth’s climate.
Throughout the project, data relating to sea level rise, deep water formation, ocean current circulation, and climate are being studied.
ETT plays a crucial role with intercontinental impacts by organizing the flow of this information, ensuring its access, use, and reuse according to international standards, making this data available to major European and international monitoring and data collection systems such as EMODnet, Copernicus Marine Service and SOOS.