Web: https://cryoscope-project.eu/
Registration number: 101184736
Project title: CryoSCOPE - CRYOsphere Science Concluding in new Observations and Productive Exploitation
Programme: Horizon Europe – Hop-on Facility
Project Coordinator: ILMATIETEEN LAITOS (FMI)
Project Partners:
OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN (OEAW), UNIVERSITETSSENTERET PA SVALBARD AS (UNIS), CSC-TIETEEN TIETOTEKNIIKAN KESKUS OY (CSC), SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS (Syke), REVOLVE PLANET (REV), OULUN YLIOPISTO (UOUL), FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG (FAU), NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU (NTNU), MUON SOLUTIONS OY (MUON), LANDSVIRKJUN (NPCI), METSATEHO OY (MT), SNOWCAP (SC), KEMI-TORNIOLAAKSON KOULUTUSKUNTAYHTYMA LAPPIA (Lappia), Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze („Hop-on Facility“ accession)
Coordinator at CZU: Roman Juras
CZU Project Team: Jan Komárek, Pavla Dagsson Waldhauserová, Vojtěch Moravec, Martin Vokoun, Jiří Rous
Project Manager: Pavla Wildová
Project Duration: 1.2.2025 - 31.1.2029
Total Project Budget: 7 820 258,75 EUR
Budget CZU: 538 861,25 EUR
Abstract:
CryoSCOPE is a project aimed at understanding and quantifying the physical and chemical processes within the coupled Cryosphere–Atmosphere–Hydrosphere (CAH) system across diverse cold-region landscapes (Swiss Alps, Finnish Lapland, Iceland, the Indian Himalayas, Svalbard, and others). The project seeks improved comprehension of how land ice, snow, and permafrost interact with atmospheric and hydrological systems, and to evaluate their sensitivity to climate change in these regions. CryoSCOPE brings together a global consortium of researchers and companies with expertise in air pollution, land ice, snow, and permafrost.
The Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), which joined the project in its second year of implementation through the Hop-on mechanism, contributes expertise in advanced aerosol monitoring, innovative observational methods such as drone-based remote sensing, and long-term experience in monitoring rain-on-snow (ROS) events. By providing this added value, the project strengthens predictive capabilities for snow and ice melt, flood risk, and water resource management under a changing climate. Moreover, the project expands its geographic scope from Arctic to mid-latitude mountain environments (such as Bohemian forest).