{"id":773,"date":"2023-09-11T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/?p=773"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:57:25","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/2023\/09\/11\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Our mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant, the AWACA project (Atmospheric <\/strong>WAter Cycle over Antarctica: past, present & future) focuses on understanding the atmospheric water cycle over Antarctica through an unprecedented field measurement campaign.\n\nThis work will, among other things, make it possible to accurately simulate snow accumulation on the Antarctic ice sheet, and therefore its mass balance, which is essential, for example, to determine the future evolution of sea level.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Understanding Antarctic weather processes to predict climate evolution<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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AWACA brings together a team of researchers working to improve understanding of the atmospheric branch of the water cycle in Antarctica. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the processes that govern the weather in this region of the Earth in order to predict future climate change. To achieve this, a set of autonomous platforms will be deployed along a 1,100-kilometre transect, from the French Dumont d\u2019Urville station on the coast to the Franco-Italian Concordia station on the high plateau of the continent.<\/p>

These platforms will be equipped with various types of measuring instruments that will make it possible to study the formation and evolution of snowflakes. Isotopic analyses will be carried out in order to trace the phase changes of water in the atmosphere (gas, liquid, solid). This isotopic analysis will provide a range of information on past climate variations through the drilling of ice cores. Measurements will be taken throughout the year, which represents a major challenge given the extreme weather conditions in Antarctica. This dataset is essential for improving the representation of physical processes in climate models and for refining future climate projections.<\/p>

The project, which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 951596 \u2013 AWACA), will begin on 1 September 2021 for a duration of six years. The first two years will focus on the development and acquisition of the instruments required for field data collection. The measurement campaign will start in December 2023, followed by a data analysis phase. Once validated, the data will be used to parameterise physical processes in order to account for their effects in climate models. Through its combined model\u2013data approach, AWACA will make it possible to reconstruct the variability of Antarctica\u2019s climate and atmospheric water cycle over the past 1,000 years, and to predict this variability over the next 100 years.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTRE MISSION Laur\u00e9at d\u2019un \u00abSynergy Grant\u00bb du Conseil europ\u00e9en de la recherche, le projet AWACA (Atmospheric WAter Cycle over Antarctica : past, present & future) est ax\u00e9 sur la compr\u00e9hension du cycle de l\u2019eau atmosph\u00e9rique en Antarctique \u00e0 travers une campagne de mesures in\u00e9dites. Ce travail permettra, entre autres, de simuler correctement l\u2019accumulation de neige […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-projet","entry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Tess Kane","author_link":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/author\/tkane\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Le projet<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"NOTRE MISSION Laur\u00e9at d\u2019un \u00abSynergy Grant\u00bb du Conseil europ\u00e9en de la recherche, le projet AWACA (Atmospheric WAter Cycle over Antarctica : past, present & future) est ax\u00e9 sur la compr\u00e9hension du cycle de l\u2019eau atmosph\u00e9rique en Antarctique \u00e0 travers une campagne de mesures in\u00e9dites. Ce travail permettra, entre autres, de simuler correctement l\u2019accumulation de neige…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awaca.ipsl.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}