Featured Project: NACLIM

Written on Jan 20, 2015.

NACLIM

Assessing decadal climate forecasts and understanding the variations in sea surface temperature and sea ice cover

The North Atlantic Ocean is one of the most important drivers for the global ocean circulation and its variability on time scales beyond inter-annual. Global climate variability is to a large extent triggered by changes in the North Atlantic sea surface state. The quality and skill of climate predictions depend crucially on a good knowledge of the northern sea surface temperatures and sea ice distributions. On a regional scale, these parameters strongly impact on weather and climate in Europe, determining precipitation patterns and strengths, as well as changes in temperature and wind patterns. Knowledge of these factors, and of their development in the years to come, is of paramount importance for society and key economic sectors, which have to base their planning and decisions on robust climate information. NACLIM will contribute to this goal.

Project outputs of the NACLIM project can be consulted through the OpenAIRE portal.

How and why is the project promoting research outputs by Open Access?

One of the basic and guiding principles of the project is the openness of the published project outcomes, these include the peer-reviewed publications (with a combination of green OA and gold OA) and research data related to the monitoring of ocean data. An open access data policy has been agreed and implemented by NACLIM scientific community. As for the data, quality controlled datasets are accessible via OceanSITES, in the World Ocean Database of the National Oceanographic Data Center, and in PANGAEA. The management of data across the consortium has been organized by a dedicated data manager. We strive more than open access, we strive for open science!

OpenAIRE and NACLIM research publications

On the OpenAIRE portal, via the repositories and data providers' network we now have more than 21 publications referred as outcomes from NACLIM, out of which 14 are in open access. Experts of OpenAIRE community are invited to our annual meetings to refresh the knowledge of the NACLIM scientists on open science, open access and on the new ways of sharing knowledge beyond their community.

Noteworthy Publications:

All publications of the NACLIM project can be consulted through the OpenAIRE portal

A cascade of warming impacts brings bluefin tuna to Greenland waters: Press release about the new paper at the Center for Ocean Life Denmark.
The paper was also cited in the press article "Bluefin tuna found hunting for mackerel in East Greenland waters"
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and the prediction of North Atlantic sea surface temperature: this publication has been quite often cited and can be tracked in few online sources, e. g. in this article in reporting climate science - North Atlantic Set To Cool Slightly Says Research and in the ESKP (Earth System Knowledge Platform) press release on "Nordatlantik beeinflusst Klima in Deutschland"
Observed decline of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation 2004–2012 : one of the few highlighted EGU papers in the section of Ocean Science

Links:

NACLIM project website
Research Data are distinguished between observations and modelling. The data collected within the observational core theme are made immediately available to the modelling groups for implementation in the Assimilation models and for evaluation in comparison with the coupled runs. The observation datasets are largely accessible at the following sites:
OceanSITES
World Ocean Database (WOD) of the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
PANGAEA
NACLIM obervational data sets
Data from modelling groups are available upon request.