PAN EURASIAN EXPERIMENT (PEEX)

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1 PAN EURASIAN EXPERIMENT (PEEX) TOWARDS A NEW MULTINATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE RESEARCH EFFORT IN ARCTIC AND BOREAL PAN-EURASIA REGIONS

2 What is PEEX? PEEX Pan-Eurasian Experiment study is a multidisciplinary climate and environmental change program focused on the Northern Eurasian and particularly Arctic and boreal region. It is a bottom up initiative by several European, Russian and Chinese research organizations and institutes. PEEX is open for other institutes to join in.

3 Institutes Stockholm University The Research Council of Norway University of Helsinki University of Leeds University of Reading / NERC University of Tyumen Finnish Meteorological Institute Alfred Wegener Institute, ECRA ileaps Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences ECRA NILU Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research CEA CICERO CNRS Danish Meteorological Institute RUSSIA Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS Directorate of the earth, Social and Economic Sciences Borok Geophysical Observatory, O.Yu. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, RAS Division of Earth Sciences, RAS AEROCOSMOS AARI Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, RAS Institute of Applied Physics RAS / University of Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Institute of Geography, RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Siberian Branch Institute of Oceanology, RAS International Institute of Forests, Siberia Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian foundation for Basic Research Russian State Hydrometeorological University Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SSC RAS, MMBI ICSC RAS V.E.Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB, RAS CHINA China Science Centre of IEAS, Institute of Geography, CAS

4 First PEEX Workshop was held in Helsinki 2-4.October, organized by University of Helsinki, Division of Atmospheric Sciences (ATM) and Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). There were over 80 participants from 42 research institutes from Russia, China and 11 European countries. 2nd PEEX meeting in Moscow February First funding applications will be made in PEEX period is set for years (2100). PEEX Project Office: PEEX Executive Officer, Research Coordinator Dr. Hanna Lappalainen, Univ. Helsinki ATM / FMI PEEX Science Officer, Head of Measurement Group, Dr. Tuukka Petäjä, Univ. Helsinki ATM Science Plan editor team: M.Kulmala (Univ. Helsinki), S. Zilitinkevich, T. Petäjä (Univ. Helsinki), H.K.Lappalainen(Univ. Helsinki/FMI), E. Asmi (FMI), T. Laurila (FMI), J. Kujansuu (Univ. Helsinki), P. Alekseychik (Univ. Helsinki), M. Paramonov (Univ. Helsinki) and V-M. Kerminen (Univ. Helsinki).

5 PEEX is targeted to provide assessments for the climate policy making in global scale. Goal of PEEX To answer global grand challenges and to set up a process for planning and establishing of a world-class long-term, coordinated observations and modeling research program. Especially to cover ground base, airborne and satellite observations. This will provide input for further constructing and validation of global and regional models to find out different forcing and feedback mechanisms in the changing climate.

6 Vision of PEEX To solve interlinked global challenges like climate change, air quality, biodiversity loss, chemicalisation, food supply, energy production, fresh water, epidemic diseases in integrative way keeping in mind that we have only one planet and our planet is our laboratory. PEEX is a multidisciplinary, multi-year, multinational, multi-step research program. PEEX vision includes to establish and maintain long-term coherent and coordinated research activity and research & educational infrastructure in PEEX domain. Furthermore, PEEX aims to contribute to the Earth system science agenda and climate policy for topics inherent to Pan-Eurasian environment.

7 Topical focus of PEEX 3. FOCI-1: PEEX research agenda 3.1 Carbon cycles 3.2 Hydrological cycles 3.3 Nitrogen cycles 3.4 Climate system Atmospheric aerosols - Black carbon Atmospheric aerosols - New-particle formation 3.5 Planetary boundary layer 3.6 Scenarios - Extreme events accelerated by climate change 3.7 Air quality and human interactions 4. FOCI-2: Development of next generation research infrastructure 4.1 Stations network 4.2 Data product development 4.3 Modelling activity 5. FOCI-3: Contributing climate policy making 6. FOCI-4: Societal impacts 7. FOCI-5: PEEX education and knowledge transfer 8. FOCI-6: Outreach, web pages, information flows

8 3. FOCI-1: PEEX research agenda 3.1 Carbon cycles 3.2 Hydrological cycles 3.3 Nitrogen cycles 3.4 Climate system Atmospheric aerosols - Black carbon Atmospheric aerosols - New-particle formation 3.5 Planetary boundary layer 3.6 Scenarios - Extreme events accelerated by climate change 3.7 Air quality and human interactions

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11 In addition to significant role of boreal forest to climate system, the key topics of interest in Pan-Eurasian region are on the melting of permafrost and the decreasing of ice cover of Arctic Ocean.

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13 In the European Union - JPI Climate Programme the Arctic has been identified as one of the main hot-spots of climate change. The area of Arctic sea-ice has been decreasing in all the seasons, and precipitation and river discharges into the Arctic Ocean have been increasing. These changes have dramatic impacts on Arctic ecology and societies. Interactions between ice sheets, oceans and permafrost processes may have global effects.

14 List of research questions related to Arctic Sea: What will be the changes in ocean-land-atmosphere interactions / fluxes under changing ice conditions and land-ocean contrast in the Arctic What will be the changes in the sea ice extent and snow cover under global warming? Effects of black carbon on snow albedo, sea ice How do the sea ice extent variations affect regional climate, with the focus on extreme weather conditions? What is the impact of temperature changes on algal blooming? What is the impact of toxic algae bloom on drinking water pools and fishing areas (via remote sensing influence from climate change Marine radioactive species & background radioactivity)?

15 At the first phase the current ongoing research activities can provide research collaboration like providing up-to-date results on relevant research topics in the Arctic regions or know-how, how to start the designing of the next-generation research infrastructures in a coherent manner. These type of Arctic activities are: the Nordic Center of Excellences CRAICC (Cryosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Arctic Climate) DEFORST (Interactions between climate change and the cryosphere).

16 The Pan-Eurasian Experiment will be supported by ileaps (integrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Processes Study) bringing the PEEX under umbrella of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). ileaps encourages international and interdisciplinary collaboration and the Science Plan of PEEX strongly contribute to its scientific goals.

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