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Nov

PROCLIAS COST Action kicked off!

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On the 27th and 28th of October 2020 a new COST Action funded by the EC started its 4 years journey of scientific interactions. More than 80 attendees from over 30 countries met during the kick of meeting of PROCLIAS COST Action CA19139, entitled Process-based models for climate impact attribution across sectors. PROCLIAS aims to [...]

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11
Oct

Contributing to the IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C

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Our recent research results on global river runoff projection developed in the frame of the HELIX FP7 project was included in the recent SR15 IPCC report. Basin-scale projections of river runoff at different warming levels as published by Betts et al., (2018) was included as Figure 3.15 of Chapter 3 - Impacts of 1.5ºC global [...]

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09
Aug

ISIMIP Global Water Workshop – Aug 2018

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A highly engaging and interactive three days ISIMIPGlobal Water Workshop hosted in Goethe University of Frankfurt. Productive, interesting and exciting discussions taken place during July 30 - August 1 2018 focusing on potential exploitation of ISIMIP2b simulations. The workshop enhanced cross-sectoral integration of the global water with other sectors through the involvement of the biomes [...]

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16
Jul

SEASONAL HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL FORECASTS IN THE LOCAL PRACTICE

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In the frame of IMPREX H2020 project we try to improve the ability to anticipate and respond to future hydrological extreme droughts in the Messara region, Crete. About 250km2 of the total valley area is cultivated and the remaining area (higher grounds) is used for livestock. The growth of agriculture in the Messara plain has a strong impact [...]

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16
Jul

CAN WE LIVE WITH A WARMER PLANET?

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Prof Richard Betts, Project Director of HELIX FP7 is presenting the key findings in a full room at the University of Exeter. We picked some of the major global river basins illustrating some of the uncertainty in river flows at different global warming according to higher end scenarios. We are using a set of high resolution [...]

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16
Jul

BOOK: HIGH-END CLIMATE CHANGE IN EUROPE

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The three EU-funded sister projects  on high-end climate change, HELIX, IMPRESSIONS and RISES-AM have drawn upon their wide range of expertise from many disciplines across the natural and social sciences to develop new understanding of the implications and risks of exceeding 20C, adapting to the climate changes.  The new book, High-End Climate Change in Europe examines [...]

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16
Jul

HOW TO PRESERVE TEMPERATURE TRENDS USING QUANTILE MAPPING BIAS CORRECTION

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Bias correction of climate variables is a standard practice in Climate Change Impact studies. Various methodologies have been developed within the framework of quantile mapping. However, it is well known that quantile mapping may significantly modify the long term statistics due to the time dependency of the temperature bias. How does this distortion occur? An [...]

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16
Jul

HOW WILL TWO DEGREES GLOBAL WARMING IMPACT EUROPEAN SUMMER TOURISM?

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It’s easy to see how important weather conditions are for tourism. Air temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind and sunshine duration – they all influence whether travellers think favourably about a holiday destination or not. And how would climate change affect the appeal of holiday destinations? At the recent COP meeting in Paris governments agreed to keep [...]

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16
Jul

THE IMPACT2C WEB-ATLAS SUMMARISES IN MAPS AND TEXTS THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL 2°C WARMING ON EUROPEAN SUMMER TOURISM INDUSTRY

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The tourism sector plays an important role in many economies all over the world. Moreover, tourism is very sensitive to the weather conditions and therefore might also be strongly affected by future climate change. Summer tourism can be differentiated during a core season from June to August and during an extended season from May to [...]

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