The BSC raises 5 million from the EU to investigate climate change

BARCELONA, 3 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) has obtained this year 5 million euros from European funds in competition to finance five new projects aimed at studying processes related to climate change and its effects on health, society and the environment.

The projects will be managed by the Department of Earth Sciences of the BSC, which focuses on the study of climate prediction and evolution, the composition of the atmosphere and the development of climate and air quality services, reported this Wednesday the center in a statement.

The BSC is currently working on 56 projects related to climate change and its impact on society, generating information for key socioeconomic sectors that are particularly affected by climate variability, such as agriculture, energy, water management and health.

The director of the Department of Earth Sciences of the BSC, Francisco Doblas, has remarked that climate services "offer relevant climate information for various sectors, taking into account their needs and the context in which they use it".

Of the five new projects awarded by the European Commission, all of them linked to the development of climate services, two are led by the BSC: one aims to investigate new strategies to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce the impact of emissions of greenhouse gases and the other promote a standardization of processes that allows establishing a series of good practices that ensure user confidence in the services developed.

The BSC is also participating as a partner in three other projects to strengthen Europe's capacity to deal with emerging threats to human health posed by climate change and to investigate the impact on climate and health of pollutants other than carbon dioxide, such as particulate matter, ozone or methane.