Geography, Environment, Sustainability (Jun 2014)
PAN EURASIAN EXPERIMENT (PEEX) - A RESEARCH INITIATIVE MEETING THE GRAND CHALLENGES OF THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT OF THE NORTHERN PAN-EURASIAN ARCTIC-BOREAL AREAS
- Hanna K. Lappalainen,
- Tuukka Petäjä,
- Joni Kujansuu,
- Veli-Matti Kerminen,
- Anatoly Shvidenko,
- Jaana Bäck,
- Timo Vesala,
- Timo Vihma,
- Gerrit De Leeuw,
- Antti Lauri,
- Taina Ruuskanen,
- Vladimir B. Lapshin,
- Nina Zaitseva,
- Olga Glezer,
- Mikhail Arshinov,
- Dominick V. Spracklen,
- Steve R. Arnold,
- Sirkku Juhola,
- Heikki Lihavainen,
- Yrjö Viisanen,
- Natalia Chubarova,
- Sergey Chalov,
- Nikolay Filatov,
- Andrey Skorokhod,
- Nikolay Elansky,
- Egor Dyukarev,
- Igor Esau,
- Pertti Hari,
- Vladimir Kotlyakov,
- Nikolay Kasimov,
- Valery Bondur,
- Gennady Matvienko,
- Alexander Baklanov,
- Evgeny Mareev,
- Yuliya Troitskaya,
- Aijun Ding,
- Huadong Guo,
- Sergej Zilitinkevich,
- Markku Kulmala
Affiliations
- Hanna K. Lappalainen
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Tuukka Petäjä
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Joni Kujansuu
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Veli-Matti Kerminen
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Anatoly Shvidenko
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
- Jaana Bäck
- Dept of Forest Ecology University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Timo Vesala
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Timo Vihma
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Gerrit De Leeuw
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Antti Lauri
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Taina Ruuskanen
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Vladimir B. Lapshin
- ROS HYDRO MET, Russia
- Nina Zaitseva
- Department of Earth Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Olga Glezer
- Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
- Mikhail Arshinov
- Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
- Dominick V. Spracklen
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Steve R. Arnold
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Sirkku Juhola
- Dept.of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Heikki Lihavainen
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Yrjö Viisanen
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Natalia Chubarova
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Sergey Chalov
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Nikolay Filatov
- Northern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Research Center of RAS (NWPI)
- Andrey Skorokhod
- A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia
- Nikolay Elansky
- A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics RAS, Moscow, Russia
- Egor Dyukarev
- Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
- Igor Esau
- Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
- Pertti Hari
- Dept of Forest Ecology University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Vladimir Kotlyakov
- Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
- Nikolay Kasimov
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Valery Bondur
- AEROCOSMOS Research Institute for Aerospace Monitoring, Moscow, Russia
- Gennady Matvienko
- Alexander Baklanov
- World Meteorological Organization, Genève, Switzerland; Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Evgeny Mareev
- Dept. of Radiophysics, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Yuliya Troitskaya
- Dept. of Radiophysics, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Aijun Ding
- Institute for Climate and Global Change Research & School of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nanjing, China
- Huadong Guo
- Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Sergej Zilitinkevich
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Dept. of Radiophysics, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Markku Kulmala
- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2014-7-2-13-48
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 2
pp. 13 – 48
Abstract
The Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) is a new multidisciplinary, global change research initiative focusing on understanding biosphere-ocean-cryosphere-climate interactions and feedbacks in Arctic and boreal regions in the Northern Eurasian geographical domain. PEEX operates in an integrative way and it aims at solving the major scientific and society relevant questions in many scales using tools from natural and social sciences and economics. The research agenda identifies the most urgent large scale research questions and topics of the land-atmosphere-aquatic-anthropogenic systems and interactions and feedbacks between the systems for the next decades. Furthermore PEEX actively develops and designs a coordinated and coherent ground station network from Europe via Siberia to China and the coastal line of the Arctic Ocean together with a PEEX-modeling platform. PEEX launches a program for educating the next generation of multidisciplinary researcher and technical experts. This expedites the utilization of the new scientific knowledge for producing a more reliable climate change scenarios in regional and global scales, and enables mitigation and adaptation planning of the Northern societies. PEEX gathers together leading European, Russian and Chinese research groups. With a bottom-up approach, over 40 institutes and universities have contributed the PEEX Science Plan from 18 countries. In 2014 the PEEX community prepared Science Plan and initiated conceptual design of the PEEX land-atmosphere observation network and modeling platform. Here we present the PEEX approach as a whole with the specific attention to research agenda and preliminary design of the PEEX research infrastructure.
Keywords
- climate change
- air quality
- the arctic
- boreal forest
- the arctic ocean
- atmosphere-biosphere-cryosphere interactions
- permafrost
- greenhouse gases
- anthropogenic influence
- natural hazards
- research infrastructures
