CONSTRAIN is an €8 million, 4-year programme of research and stakeholder engagement, funded by Horizon 2020. Led by the University of Leeds, the CONSTRAIN consortium involves 14 partners and around 50 researchers from 9 countries across Europe and Israel.
University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
Leeds is the scientific coordinator for CONSTRAIN and has input into most work packages.
The Leeds CONSTRAIN team is led by Piers Forster (Principal Investigator) and Amanda Maycock.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP1 – Scientific input, Effective radiative forcing and rapid adjustments
WP3 – Co-lead, Ocean atmosphere coupling and climate projections
WP4 – Co-lead, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
WP5 – Scientific input, Translation to policy and dissemination
WP6 – Lead, Project management and coordination
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CICERO - Center for International Climate Research (Oslo, Norway)
The CONSTRAIN CICERO team is led by Gunnar Myhre and Bjørn H. Samset.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP1 – Lead, Effective radiative forcing and rapid adjustments
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
WP5 – Scientific input, Translation to policy and dissemination
Climate Analytics (Berlin, Germany)
The CONSTRAIN Climate Analytics team is led by Carl-Friedrich Schleussner.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP5 – Co-Lead, Translation to policy and dissemination
WP6 – Lead, CONSTRAIN stakeholder engagement
Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
The CONSTRAIN TU Delft team is led by Pier Siebesma.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP2 – Scientific input, Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
ETH - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich (Switzerland)
The ETH CONSTRAIN team is led by Christoph Schär and Reto Knutti.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP2 – Scientific input, Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
WP5 – Scientific input, Translation to policy and dissemination
Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
The Imperial CONSTRAIN team is led by Joeri Rogelj.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP5 – Co-lead, Translation to policy and dissemination
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna, Austria)
The CONSTRAIN IIASA team is led by Thomas Gasser.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
WP5 – Scientific input, Translation to policy and dissemination
IPSL - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (Guyancourt, France)
The CONSTRAIN CNRS team is led by Sandrine Bony and Olivier Boucher.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP1 – Scientific input, Effective radiative forcing and rapid adjustments
WP2 – Lead, Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
WP4 – Co-lead, cross-cutting physical science synthesis
WP5 – Scientific input, Translation to policy and dissemination
Leipzig University (Germany)
The CONSTRAIN Leipzig team is led by Johannes Quaas.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP1 – Co-lead, Effective radiative forcing and rapid adjustments
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany)
The CONSTRAIN MPI team is Jochem Marotzke, Bjorn Stevens, and Dirk Olonscheck
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP2 – Co-lead, Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
WP3 – Scientific input, Ocean atmosphere coupling and climate projections
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
Météo-France, National Center for Meteorological Research (France)
The CONSTRAIN CNRM team is led by Roland Séférian.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP1 – Scientific input, Effective radiative forcing and rapid adjustments
WP2 – Scientific input, Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
WP3 – Co-lead, Ocean atmosphere coupling and climate projections
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
WP5 – Scientific input, Translation to policy and dissemination
Stockholm University (Sweden)
The CONSTRAIN Stockholm team is led by Rodrigo Caballero and Thorsten Mauritsen.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP2 – Scientific input, Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
UK Meteorological Office (Exeter, United Kingdom)
The CONSTRAIN Met Office team is led by Cath Senior, Jim Haywood, Mark Ringer, Tim Andrews, Doug Smith, and Colin Jones.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP1 – Scientific input, Effective radiative forcing and rapid adjustments
WP2 – Scientific input, Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
WP3 – Scientific input, Ocean atmosphere coupling and climate projections
WP4 – Scientific input, Cross-cutting physical science synthesis
Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel)
The CONSTRAIN Weizmann team is led by Yohai Kaspi.
Roles and responsibilities include:
WP2 – Scientific input, circulation and climate sensitivity