01. 03. 2005. - 28. 02. 2010.
Participants of the project
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
Airbus France
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants - UK
Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique
CICERO - Senter for klimaforskning
Météo France - Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Univerzita Karlovy v Praze (Charles University, Prague)
Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Det Norske Veritas AS
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Heavens-Above GmbH
National Meteorological Administration
Universität Bremen
IVL Swedish Environmental Institute Ltd
Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
Institute for Transport Sciences
The Manchester Metropolitan University
Max-Plank-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
National Institut of Meteorology and Hydrology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales
Paul Scherrer Institut
Transport & Mobility Leuven
Chancellors, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
Regents of the University of California, Irvine
Universitetet i Oslo
Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Universität Hamburg
Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford
University of Reading
Universytet Warszawski
University of York
University of Szeged, Department of Climatology and Landscape Ecology
Central Aerological Observatory
Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Ohysics of MSU
State Unitary Enterprise Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
China Academy of Transport Sciences
Tsinghua University
Central Institute of Road Transport
Aim of the project
QUANTIFY, an Integrated Project coordinated by the DLR-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, started in March 2005 with a large kick-off event in Landshut. It dealt with the climate impact of transport and was funded until February 2010 by the European Commission within the 6th research framework programme. QUANTIFY also included the DLR Institute of Transport Research (Berlin) and the Research Flight Facility Oberpfaffenhofen. In total, 41 participants and 6 associated members from 17 European countries, the U.S.A., China and India were cooperating in QUANTIFY. The research topics were organized in 8 closely linked subprojects. They focused on quantification of the impact of air, sea and land traffic on the global climate. Accompanying measurement campaigns with research aircraft were an innovative part of QUANTIFY.
Department of Climatology and Landscape Ecology, University of Szeged took part in work packages 6 (“Radiative forcing and climate change”) and 7 (“Policy-relevant metrics”). Research leader was László Makra, who was at the same time a co-leader of work package 7.
1. The time and spatial variation of changes in temperature, precipitation, cloudiness and other climate parameters to transport-related emissions were quantified for the period 1900 to 2100.
2. Coupled atmosphere-ocean models were applied in order to study the response of the climate system to idealised changes in forcing for the purpose of calibrating simpler climate models.
3. New / revised metrics were proposed that are suited for the transport sector.
4. Policy implications of the new / revised metrics were analysed for the transport sector.
5. New / revised metrics were applied and evaluated in order to make comparisons within the transport sector and between the transport sector and other sectors.
6. Metrics were applied to compare the climate effects of different modes of transport and mitigation options.
