Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/J016276/1
Impact of Climate Extremes on Ecsosystem and Human Health in Brazil (PULSE-Brazil)
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor P Cox, University of Exeter, Engineering Computer Science and Maths
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr L Arag?o, National Inst for Space Research (INPE), UNLISTED
- Grant held at:
- University of Exeter, Engineering Computer Science and Maths
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Freshwater
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Climate & Climate Change
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Abstract:
- The international scientific community is developing a greater understanding of the underpinning science and the associated impacts of climate change on Amazonia. However, the challenge is now to continue to develop the science while at the same time engaging with the national and international stakeholders, the key policymakers and the local communities. We recognise that this cannot be achieved in isolation and the key to success will be through international collaboration. Therefore, this programme will be delivered through close collaboration between the University of Exeter, the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the UK Met Office. The PULSE-Brazil project consists of three inter-linked Work-packages (WPs): Work-package 1 (WP1) - will coordinate the exchange of scientists between the UK and Brazil, organise and run international conferences and stakeholder engagement activities, and manage the overall PULSE-Brazil project. The ultimate aim of this WP is to integrate the results and discussions between the cross-disciplinary research team and policy makers to propose strategies for mitigation and adaptation (Leader: Luiz Aragao) Work-package 2 (WP2) - will focus on building the climate, environmental and human-health datasets for assessing the Impacts and Vulnerability to Climate Change in Brazil, based on state-of-the-art climate change projections from he regional Eta model and the MBSCG global model. The climate and environmental data will be delivered by INPE of Brazil, while the health data will be delivered by Federal University of Minas Gerais - both funded by a related proposal to FAPESP- FRPGCC (Leader : Jose Marengo). Work-package 3 (WP3) - will develop a 'user friendly' decision-support system (PULSE) that will allow both academic and non-academic users to visualise the impacts of Climate Change on ecosystems and human health the Brazilian region, using relevant outputs from pre-existing model projections. This will be subcontracted to the UK Met Office (Leader: Richard Betts).
- NERC Reference:
- NE/J016276/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- IOF
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- IOF
This grant award has a total value of £240,803
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DI - Staff | DA - Estate Costs | DA - Other Directly Allocated | DI - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £87,089 | £17,416 | £38,168 | £50,034 | £5,063 | £369 | £42,663 |
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