Projects

The following projects are listed in alphabetical order.

ANR DEAR

Deposition and Erosion of fine sediments in Alpine Rivers

The transport of fine sediments poses major challenges in terms of environmental risks, degradation of the quality of aquatic environments and the export of nutrients and adsorbed contaminants. In mountainous contexts where the flow of suspended matter is very high, the management and prediction of these flows requires a better understanding of their transfer dynamics. The DEAR project focuses in particular on the temporary storage of fine sediments in alluvial river beds, which is very poorly understood to date. Approaches combining physics-based numerical modelling and field measurements at two sites (Galabre at the Draix-Bléone Observatory and Arc-Isère at the Zone Atelier du Bassin du Rhône) are being developed to advance understanding of the processes that lead to the deposition and remobilisation of fine particles in the hydrographic network.

Contact : Cédric Legoût->https://annuaire.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/index.php] - scientific manager of IGE

Link to the project website : https://dear.inrae.fr/?page_id=163&lang=fr

ANR DYVALOCCA

DYnamics, VAriability and bioclimatic effects of LOw clouds Cover in western Central Africa

Low-level clouds (LLC) are key climate components but are usually not well represented in climate models. An extensive LLC cover develops during the June-September main dry season in western equatorial Africa which likely explains the presence of the densest evergreen forests in this region. As paleoclimatic studies indicate a high unstability, any reduction of the LCC cover due to climate change may represent a major tipping-point for forests. DYVALOCCA’s aims is to understand the presence, variability and bioclimatic effects of the LLC cover in the current climate and to provide a robust assessment of its future evolution under climate change.

Contact : Dr Nathalie PHILIPPON - Project Investigator

Link to the project website : https://dyvalocca.osug.fr

ANR STEWARd

STatistical Early WArning systems of weather-related Risks from probabilistic forecasts, over cities in West Africa

Natural disasters have a strong impact on West African cities, and climatic and demographic changes tend to increase their severity. The STEWARd project proposes to study from the physical and social point of view the high impact weather events (intense rainfall, droughts, heat waves and dust storms) on several large West African cities in order to co-construct with field actors decision support tools for operational early warning of risks for the populations.

Contact : Christophe Lavaysse - project investigator

 

 

ATMO-ACCESS

Access to Atmospheric Research Facilities

ATMO-ACCESS is the organized response of distributed atmospheric research facilities for developing a pilot for a new model of Integrating Activities. The project will deliver a series of recommendations for establishing a comprehensive and sustainable framework for access to distributed atmospheric Research Infrastructures (RI), ensuring integrated access to and optimised use of the services they provide.

Contact : Paolo Laj - Co-coordinator.

Link to the website : https://www.atmo-access.eu

 

ATMO-PLASTIC

Emission, atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastics

English Summary : Microplastics (MP) are an emerging contaminant, with significant MP found from Oceans to remote terrestrial locations and potential (in)direct effects on ecosystem health. The quantity of MP polluting the terrestrial environment is unknown, with knowledge gaps in the global MP mass balance and understanding how MP are transported to terrestrial ecosystems. The ATMO-PLASTIC project will therefore investigate the role of the atmosphere in global MP cycling.

Contact : Aurélien Dommergue et Jennie Thomas

Link to the website : https://summits.cnrs.fr/accueil/projects/atmo-plastic/

 

Beyond EPICA

Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice

Understanding the workings of climate change requires looking back to the past, to the times when major climate changes took place. This is why scientists from 10 European nations have the project to drill through ice more than a million years old in Antarctica, while the previous record is held by the European EPICA project with 800,000 years. The chosen site is close to the French-Italian base CONCORDIA, and the project plans to bring and analyze the ice in Europe.

Contact : Frederic Parrenin - French project leader, responsible for the WP5 "Surrounding Science".

Link to the website : https://www.beyondepica.eu/

Climat-Métro

How to adapt to climate change in the Grenoble conurbation from the point of flood risk ?

The interdisciplinary Climat-Metro project aims on the one hand to characterize the evolution of extreme rainfall and the probability of confluence floods and on the other hand to assess the sustainability of river management practices with regard to changing climatic conditions.

Contact : Juliette Blanchet, CNRS researcher

Link to the website : https://climatmetro.wordpress.com/

(Photo by Philippe Belleudy, IGE).

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CONTaCTS

Consistent OceaN Turbulence for ClimaTe Simulators

Ocean currents exhibit structures that can be as small as 10-50 km, which influence the large-scale circulation and thermal behavior of the ocean up to the scale of ocean basins. Recent studies have shown that these small-scale structures can be important for accurate and consistent simulations of the climate system ; however, present climate models do not take into account the influence of these small oceanic structures. The CONTaCTS project aims to represent the impact of these small scale structures in numerical ocean models, in order to improve climate projections.

Contact : Dr Thierry Penduff - co-Project Investigator

Link to the project website : https://meom-group.github.io/projects/contacts/

H2020 - CRiceS

Climate Relevant interactions and feedbacks : the key role of sea ice and Snow in the polar and global climate system

The CRiceS project focuses on improving model predictions of the role of polar processes in the climate system that consists of the oceans, ice and snow cover, and the atmosphere. It is crucial to understand the role of the polar processes, such as feedback loops, in polar and global climate. One of the main ways scientists can improve our understanding of environmental change is to combine knowledge from different disciplines in a coordinated way. The CRiceS project brings together 21 international research teams, from Europe, Canada, South Africa, India and Russia, at the forefront of polar and global climate research. The CRiceS research project aims to enhance the modelling of the impacts that these regions have for the global climate.

Contact : Jennie Thomas - Coordinator

Link to the project website : https://www.crices-h2020.eu

H2020 - PROTECT

PROjecTing sEa-level rise : from iCe sheets to local implicaTions

Losing more and more ice, mountain glaciers and polar ice caps have been major contributors to the current rise in sea levels over the past 20 years and will remain so in the future.
Through the H2020-PROTECT project, the scientific community is developing the tools necessary to better anticipate the future retreat of glaciers and polar ice caps and the evolution of sea levels that we will experience on our coasts.

Contact : Gaël Durand - Coordinator

Link to the project website : https://protect-slr.eu

HMA

Hautes Montagnes d’Asie - High Mountain Asia

The project focuses on the processes controlling the water cycle at high elevation in High Mountain Asia –from the local scale to the regional scale.
The aim is to federate the research activities of the IGE in the High Mountains of Asia (HMA) to study the spatiotemporal variability of the water cycle and climate and its involvement in the evolution of water resources.
This project will help to keep on

• strengthening this French-Nepalese partnership
• improving the capacity building
• developing a scientific network to promote the use of the existing glacio-hydro-meteo observation network and insure data diffusion.

Contact : Yves Arnaud, - co-responsable du Projet avec Patrick Wagnon

IceMemory

Convinced that safeguarding the endangered ice heritage of glaciers is the responsibility of the present generation, the international scientific and institutional community has decided to take action. The Ice Memory program aims to provide, now and for the decades and centuries to come, the raw material and data necessary for scientific advances and political decisions contributing to the sustainability of humanity.
Ice Memory brings together the international scientific and institutional community to create a sanctuary in Antarctica to preserve the heritage of ice cores from glaciers currently threatened with degradation or disappearance.

Contact : Patrick GINOT, - Membre fondateur

Link to the project website : https://www.ice-memory.org/

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IMMERSE

LMI LECZ CARE

International Joint Laboratory "LECZ-CARE" : Low Elevation Coastal Zone in the south of Vietnam

In a few years, the Mekong and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) deltaic areas have undergone profound changes, and are subject to strong environmental pressures : subsidence, sea level rise, soil salinization, water pollution. The LMI was created in 2019 to support water research within the CARE (Asian Water Research Center) located on the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Campus, with the ambition to eventually create a center of excellence with an integrated and comprehensive vision of water resources in this threatened region by addressing three major societal issues around water quality, risks, and technologies.

Contact : Marc Descloitres, - Co-director

Link to the project website : http://carerescif.hcmut.edu.vn/

 

MOPGA Hotclim

Make Our Planet Great Again - Characterization & Dynamics of Past Warm Climates

The HOTCLIM project will determine the variations in the climate of high latitudes during warm periods in the past, characterized by a polar warming whose amplitude is close to that projected in 2100. It is based on :

• - Analyses on the air trapped in the polar ice
• - Synthesis of climate data from natural archives.
• - Comparisons with climate simulations.
  It will improve our understanding of natural climate variability and the response of the polar ice caps to prolonged warming. The results will allow the models used for climate projections to be evaluated in a warmer context than the current one.

Contact : Emilie Capron, - Project Leader

Link to the website : http://www.ige-grenoble.fr/Projet-Make-Our-Planet-Great-Again

REVIVING

RheoVOLUTION

Micro-scale dependent, time- and space-evolving rheologies : the key for generating strain localization in the Earth

The EU-funded RhEoVOLUTION project plans to develop advanced models that could change our understanding of rheology - the branch of physics that deals with the deformation and flow of matter - in geodynamics. The new models should make it possible to predict the onset and evolution of stress localization, which has been impossible to achieve so far. The multi-scale simulation tool that the project proposes will be able to link the relevant processes at micro-, meso- and macro scales. The final objective is to model the way in which the heterogeneity and anisotropy of rocks determine the localization of constraints, from the centimeter scale to tens of kilometers in the earth.

SASIP

The Scale-Aware Sea Ice Project (SASIP)

SASIP is an international collaborative project to better understand the impact of amplified warming in polar regions, through the development of a new sea ice modelling paradigm.

SASIP aims to develop a truly innovative, scale-aware continuum sea ice model for climate research ; one that faithfully represents sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics and that is physically sound, data-adaptive, highly parallelized and computationally efficient. SASIP will use machine learning and data assimilation to exploit large datasets obtained from both simulations and remote sensing.

Contact : Pierre Rampal - Project Investigator

Link to the website : https://sasip-climate.github.io

SAUSSURE

Sliding of glAciers and sUbglacial water preSSURE

Glacial dynamics, by ensuring the transport of ice to the ablation zones, plays an important role in the mass balance of glaciers and polar ice caps. The SAUSSURE project combines field measurement campaigns and modeling to better understand the conditions at the base of glaciers.
SAUSSURE is coordinated by the IGE, with significant involvement of the CryoDyn and C2H teams and the technical department.

Contact : Christian Vincent,->https://annuaire.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/index.php] - Project Manager

Link to the project website : https://saussure.osug.fr/

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