The Nordic Centre of Excellence CRAICC (Cryosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Arctic Climate), funded by NordForsk in the years 2011-2016, is the largest joint Nordic research and innovation initiative to date, aiming to strengthen research and innovation regarding climate change issues in the Nordic region. CRAICC gathered more than 100 scientists from all Nordic countries in a virtual centre with the objectives of identifying and quantifying the major processes controlling Arctic warming and related feedback mechanisms, outlining strategies to mitigate Arctic warming, and developing Nordic Earth system modelling with a focus on short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs), including natural and anthropogenic aerosols.
The outcome of CRAICC is reflected in more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications, most of which are in the CRAICC special issue of the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. This paper presents an overview of the main scientific topics investigated in the centre and provides the reader with a state-of-the-art comprehensive summary of what has been achieved in CRAICC with links to the particular publications for further detail. Faced with a vast amount of scientific discovery, we do not claim to completely summarize the results from CRAICC within this paper, but rather concentrate here on the main results which are related to feedback loops in climate change-cryosphere interactions that affect Arctic amplification.
1.Univ Helsinki, Inst Atmospher & Earth Syst Res Phys, POB 64, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland 2.Univ Gothenburg, Dept Chem & Mol Biol Atmospher Sci, S-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden 3.BSC, Earth Sci Dept, Barcelona, Spain 4.Agr Univ Iceland, Fac Agr & Environm Sci, Hvanneyri, Iceland 5.Tech Univ Denmark, DTU Wind Energy, Riso Campus, Roskilde, Denmark 6.Bulgarian Acad Sci, Natl Inst Meteorol & Hydrol, Sofia, Bulgaria 7.Univ Helsinki, Inst Atmospher & Earth Syst Res Forest, POB 27, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland 8.Aarhus Univ, Dept Chem, Langelandsgade 140, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark 9.Univ Iceland, Dept Phys Sci, Reykjavik, Iceland 10.Czech Univ Life Sci, Fac Environm Sci, Prague, Czech Republic 11.Stockholm Univ, Dept Environm Sci & Analyt Chem, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden 12.Finnish Meteorol Inst, Climate Res Programme, Helsinki, Finland 13.Univ Iceland, Inst Earth Sci, Reykjavik, Iceland 14.Stockholm Univ, Dept Meteorol, Stockholm, Sweden 15.Stockholm Univ, Bolin Ctr Climate Res, Stockholm, Sweden 16.Fujian Normal Univ, Inst Geog, Key Lab Humid Subtrop Ecogeog Proc, Fuzhou, Fujian, Peoples R China 17.Norwegian Polar Res Inst, FRAM High North Res Ctr Climate & Environm, N-9296 Tromso, Norway 18.NILU Norwegian Inst Air Res, Kjeller, Norway 19.Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys Geog, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden 20.Norwegian Meteorol Inst, Oslo, Norway 21.Univ Helsinki, Fac Biol & Environm Sci, Ecosyst & Environm Res Programme, ECRU, POB 65, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland 22.Univ Oslo, Dept Geosci, Oslo, Norway 23.Tyumen State Univ, Dept Cryosphere, Tyumen 625003, Russia 24.Aarhus Univ, Arct Res Ctr, Dept Environm Sci, Climate, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark 25.Icelandic Meteorol Off, Reykjavik, Iceland 26.Univ Oulu, Nano & Mol Syst Res Unit, POB 3000, Oulu 90014, Finland 27.Lund Univ, Dept Phys, Div Nucl Phys, POB 118, S-22100 Lund, Sweden 28.CICERO, Oslo, Norway 29.Univ Helsinki, Dept Geosci & Geog, Helsinki, Finland 30.Air Qual Res Div Environm & Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON M3H5T4, Canada 31.Univ Iceland, Environm & Nat Resources, Reykjavik, Iceland 32.Uppsala Univ, Dept Ecol & Genet Limnol, Uppsala, Sweden
Recommended Citation:
Boy, Michael,Thomson, Erik S.,Acosta Navarro, Juan-C.,et al. Interactions between the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems at northern high latitudes[J]. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,2019-01-01,19(3):2015-2061