The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)’s Forecasting Tipping Points program has issued a call for proposals.
Backed by £81m, this program aims to enhance our climate change response by developing an early warning system for tipping points.
This solicitation seeks R&D Creators, which are individuals and teams that ARIA will fund to:
- Co-design an affordable and sustainable harmonised network of remote and in situ sensing systems, initially targeting observations of processes within the Greenland Ice Sheet and Subpolar Gyre that are crucial for understanding instabilities in these systems but are not well served by existing measurements
- Rapidly deploying sensing systems in a comprehensive, multi-year, coordinated field campaign in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Subpolar Gyre, to demonstrate new technologies and sow the seeds of long-term monitoring capability
- Develop, test and cross-validate competing modelling approaches to characterise the tipping points, the subsequent impacts and the economic consequences of crossing tipping points in Greenland Ice Sheet and Subpolar Gyre