Short about the project
Atmospheric aerosols – liquid and solid particles suspended in the atmosphere – play a critical role in determining Earth’s climate. Whether natural or human-induced, they impact the formation, properties and life cycles of clouds. Characterising these interactions is important for evaluating and predicting the impact of human activities on climate change.
The National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” (INCAS) in Bucharest is the only airborne cloud research platform holder in eastern Europe, making it uniquely positioned to address aerosol-cloud interactions. The EU-funded BRACE-MY project will boost the capacity and recognition of INCAS through a twinning action, providing skills and equipment to obtain, process and interpret data to improve future climate projections.
Project partners in the BRACE-MY consortium are Andøya Space Centre, University of Oslo both from Norway, and Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Germany
Full project information and objectives
For full description of objectives and more information about the BRACE-MY project visit the main website at EUs cordis-website:
Main project description and objectives of BRACE-MY
Financing
The full name of this project is 'Boosting ReseArch CapabilitiEs of Romanian Cloud MicrophYsics Centre (BRACE-MY)'. The project is coordinated by The National Institute of Aerospace Research (INCAS), and is granted under EU HORIZON-WIDERA 2021, with project number 101079385.
The project period: Start date: 01.09.2022. End date: 31.08.2025.
Cooperation
The BRACE-MY research cooperation is carried out with researchers from Norway, Romania and Germany, and coordinated by The National Institute of Aerospace Research (INCAS), Romania. Partners in the BRACE-MY consortium are these:
- Andøya Space Centre, Norway
- Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway
- Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Germany
- The National Institute of Aerospace Research (INCAS), Romania
Tools / infrastructure
This project benefits from and uses the new infrastructure 'The Cold Climate Container'. This is a laboratory that can provide stable cold conditions for scientific tests of, for example, on use of scientific instruments in cold environments.
Visit the webpages for The Cold Climate Container
The Cold Climate Container and laboratory is a infrastrucure at Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. The container with instrumentation is located centrally at the university campus at Blindern (Oslo) and is in use by different research projects at University of Oslo.
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