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English name: Earth and Climate division
Thesaurus terms (13) : Air pollution; Climate; Climate and paleo-climate modelling; Climatic changes; General circulation (atmospheric); Global change; Marine glaciology; Meteorology; Palaeoclimate; Physical models; Physical oceanography; Polynyas; Sea level changes
MRG keywords (4) : Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Land use; Sediment mechanics/dynamics
Geographical terms (3) : ANE, Greenland [Marine Regions]; PS, Southern Ocean [Marine Regions]; PSE, Antarctica, Victoria Land, Terra Nova Bay [Marine Regions]
Address:
Bâtiment Mercator
Place Louis Pasteur 3
boite L4.03.08
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
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Tel.: +32-(0)10-47 32 97
Fax: +32-(0)10-47 28 77
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Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department
2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years.
3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
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| Abstract: |
The Earth and Climate division of the Earth and Life Institute (ELIc) aims to understand the functioning of the Earth system, with a focus on climate and the relationship between human activities and the natural environment. The four main research themes of the centre involve:
- climate system dynamics;
- land use and globalisation;
- soil, sediment and nutrient fluxes;
- space and planets.
The marine-related research of the group concerns climate, sea-ice and ocean models. The group is developing and maintaining, in collaboration with the Nucleous for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO) consortium, the Sea Ice Modelling integrated initiative (SI3) / Louvain-la-Neuve Ice Model (LIM). ELIC has contributed to the coupling of NEMO-SI3/LIM to several climate models. These models are applied on various systems at global scale, in particular to study the mechanisms responsible for past and future climate change at high latitudes of both hemispheres and the role of polar oceans and sea ice in observed and projected climate change. |
| Projects (7) |
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- ASTER: Assessment of modelling uncertainties in long-term climate and sea- level change projections, more
- BELCANTO II: Assessing the sensitivity of the Southern Ocean’s biological pump to climate change, more
- BELCANTO III: Integrated Study of Southern Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate Interactions in the Anthropocene, more
- BENCORE: Belgian Network for Coastal Reseach, more
- ECOSONOS: Emissions of CO2, SO2 and Nox from ships, more
- MILMO: Modelling the evolution of climate and sea level over the third millennium, more
- Solas.be: Gather and promote Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere related belgian efforts, more
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