CORDIS · Euro-Argo RISE

Euro-Argo Research Infrastructure Sustainability and Enhancement

Code: Euro-Argo RISE
Programme: H2020
Call: INFRADEV-03-2018-2019
Status: CLOSED
Period: 2019-01-01 – 2022-12-31

Total cost (whole consortium)3 953 406 €

EU contribution (whole consortium)3 953 406 €

EU contribution to Bulgarian participants49 500 €

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Participants

Organisations	Role	Country	Grant
EURO-ARGO ERIC	coordinator	FR	536 718 €
INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER	participant	FR	857 026 €
SORBONNE UNIVERSITE	participant	FR	554 611 €
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL (GEOMAR)	participant	DE	246 875 €
ILMATIETEEN LAITOS	participant	FI	225 375 €
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE	participant	UK	220 541 €
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS	participant	ES	177 625 €
INSTYTUT OCEANOLOGII POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK	participant	PL	156 250 €
SOCIB - CONSORCIO PARA EL DISENO, CONSTRUCCION, EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DEL SISTEMA DE OBSERVACION COSTERO DE LAS ILLES BALEARS	participant	ES	153 816 €
BUNDESAMT FUR SEESCHIFFFAHRT UND HYDROGRAPHIE	participant	DE	135 625 €
MARINE INSTITUTE	participant	IE	134 720 €
HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH	participant	EL	133 625 €
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE	participant	IT	112 875 €
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION	participant	CH	72 500 €
INSTITUTO PORTUGUES DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA,IP	participant	PT	54 922 €
ИНСТИТУТ ПО ОКЕАНОЛОГИЯ	participant	BG	49 500 €
ACRI ST SAS	participant	FR	37 500 €
UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION	participant	UK	35 709 €
PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY LIMITED	participant	UK	34 375 €
HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET	participant	NO	23 218 €
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS	third party	FR	0 €

Description

The core Argo system is based on an array of profiling floats which measure every 10 days temperature and salinity throughout the deep global oceans, down to 2000 meters, and deliver data both in real time for operational users and, after careful scientific quality control, for climate change research and monitoring. Argo data policy is fully open and guarantees a free access of the data to all interested users. A new phase of the Argo programme is now being implemented at international level. This new phase has two main objectives: 1/ sustain the existing global array and 2/ extend its capabilities to greater depths and to biogeochemistry. The present target is to maintain a network of at least 4000 floats, with ¼ carrying biogeochemical parameters and ¼ going to abyssal oceans. There is more than ever a pressing need to better observe the oceans. This is recognised at the highest political levels (G7, IPCC and its Special Report on the ocean and cryosphere). Developing Argo and its extensions is, in particular, one the top priorities of the G7 Future of Oceans. The overarching objective of Euro-Argo RISE (Euro-Argo Research Infrastructure Sustainability and Enhancement) is to enhance and extend the capabilities of the Argo network to provide essential ocean observations to answer new societal and scientific challenges. Euro-Argo RISE project is needed now to allow Europe to timely develop the European contribution to this new phase of Argo and engage with new teams. Euro-Argo RISE aims to secure and improve the current network as well as to set up and organise on the long term the new components of the network, extending Argo observations towards biogeochemistry, greater depth, partially ice-covered and shallower water regions within a long-term sustainability plan supported by Member States and funding agencies.

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