| projects-521 |
101004211 |
ECFAS |
A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A EUROPEAN COPERNICUS COASTAL FLOOD AWARENESS SYSTEM |
H2020 |
H2020-SPACE-2018-2020 |
LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 |
2021-01-01 |
2022-12-31 |
Completed |
€ 001 500 000.00 |
The increasing number of tools and algorithms able to process and extract qualitative and quantitative information from Earth Observation products has an enormous potential to support the evaluation of weather-induced climate risks. The ECFAS project will contribute to the evolution of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service by demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System. ECFAS will provide a proof-of-concept that will complement and broaden the currently available panoply of core service information. ECFAS will evaluate coastal flood risk contributing to a fully integrated risk cycle monitoring service. ECFAS will implement an awareness system for coastal areas (preparedness phase) and impact assessment products (response phase), fundamental for effective recovery and prevention actions. Following the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, the avoidance of duplication, and the facilitation of user uptake, ECFAS will capitalise from the product portfolio of CEMS, CMEMS and CLMS, publicly available datasets and information derived from relevant EU projects. Marine forcing forecasts will be improved through the integration of available models in order to reduce uncertainties and provide reliable coastal flood maps. Hazard and impact assessments will be carried out taking into account the existing CEMS framework and adding the impact on low-lying areas, that represents a set of added value mapping products. The technical operational feasibility of the products will be demonstrated through a performance assessment of the service in selected test cases for past-events, as well as in forecasting mode. The integration of data from different sources will require increased computer resources, supporting the concept of using DIAS as core processing service. The availability and accessibility of generated data and derived products will stimulate their exploitation by users of the Emergency Service and beyond |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101004211 |
River and estuaries', 'Urban water' |
| projects-522 |
243401 |
FLOODPROBE |
Technologies for the cost-effective Flood Protection of the Built Environment |
FP7 |
No data |
ENV.2009.3.1.5.1 |
2009-11-01 |
2013-10-31 |
Completed |
€ 004 636 982.00 |
The principal aim of FloodProBE is to provide cost-effective means for the flood protection and damage mitigation in urban areas. To this end, FloodProBE will develop, test and disseminate technologies, methods, concepts and tools for risk assessment and mitigation, focussing particularly on the adaptation of new and existing buildings (retrofitting) and on infrastructure networks. The three main elements addressed by FloodProBE are (a) the vulnerability of critical infrastructure and high-density value assets, being the main originators of direct and indirect flood damage, (b) the reliability of urban flood defences by improving understanding and assessment of failure processes that have proven to be critical in recent flood events and (c) construction technologies and concepts for flood-proofing buildings and infrastructure networks to increase the flood-resilience of the urban system as well as for retrofit and repair of flood defences in the most economic and cost beneficial manner. The afore-mentioned elements will be integrated into state-of-the-art flood risk management strategies and will be developed, tested and validated via pilot study sites. A wide range of stakeholders will be involved in the project from the outset through an Associate Partner programme and by an external Advisory Board. This involvement will provide guidance on the project programme to directly meet industry needs, whilst also facilitating international dissemination, supporting uptake and implementation of project deliverables. The primary impact of FloodProBE will be a significant increase in the cost-effectiveness (i.e. performance) of investments in newly developed and existing flood protection and flood resilience measures. This will be achieved by focusing the research on “risk hotspots”, i.e. weak links in flood defence system performance and vulnerable assets, that, if damaged, cause very large direct and indirect adverse consequences (e.g. infrastructure networks). |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/243401 |
River and estuaries', 'Urban water' |
| projects-523 |
835496 |
HEGS |
Hydrologic Extremes at the Global Scale: teleconnections, extreme-rich/poor periods, climate drivers and predictability |
H2020 |
H2020-MSCA-IF-2018 |
MSCA-IF-2018 |
2019-05-17 |
2022-05-16 |
Completed |
€ 000 281 827.20 |
Hydrologic extremes (floods and intense precipitations) are among Earth’s most common natural hazards and cause considerable loss of life and economic damage. Despite this, some of their key characteristics are still poorly understood at the global scale. The IPCC thus reports “a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale”. More generally, the space-time variability of hydrologic extremes is yet to be thoroughly described at the global scale. As a striking illustration, the recent initiative “23 unsolved problems in Hydrology that would revolutionise research in the 21st century” of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences includes questions such as: are the characteristics of extreme hydrologic events changing and if so why? How do extremes around the world teleconnect with each other and with other factors? Why do extreme-rich/poor periods exist?It is vital to fill these knowledge gaps to inform design, safety and financial procedures and to improve hazard preparedness and response. The project’s ambition is hence to better understand the global space-time variability of hydrologic extremes, using a three-pillar research strategy based on methodological innovation, extensive data analysis and proof-of-concept case studies. The specific objectives are to:1. Develop a statistical framework to describe the global-scale variability of extremes in relation to climate;2. Analyse global precipitation/streamflow datasets with the aim of quantifying teleconnections, spatial clustering, trends and extreme-rich/poor periods, along with their climate drivers;3. Explore practical applications such as global early warning systems allowing international disaster response organisations to trigger early actions.Successful completion of the project will deliver new tools to analyse extremes at the global scale and will hence contribute to more efficient risk management. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/835496 |
River and estuaries', 'Urban water' |
| projects-524 |
796752 |
FLOODARC |
Understanding long-term FLOOD pattern variability in Western Mediterranean using natural ARChives |
H2020 |
H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 |
MSCA-IF-2017 |
2019-04-01 |
2021-03-31 |
Completed |
€ 000 185 076.00 |
Society is becoming more vulnerable to natural climate variability through increasing exposure of people and infrastructure. Notably, floods are among the most destructive natural hazards causing widespread loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic deprivation. Robust knowledge about their future trends is therefore crucial for the sustainable development of societies worldwide, particularly in sensitive areas such as Western Mediterranean. This Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the long-term variability of hazardous (high-impact) floods at different temporal and spatial scales. Through this action the Experienced Researcher (ER) will work within the Hydro-Meteorology, Climate and Society Interactions (HMCIS) group at the Host Institution (IGE) to develop a high-impact flood database in Western Mediterranean. State-of-the art statistical tools applied to the flood database will allow the ER i) to evaluate, for the first time, the causes of non-stationarity in the long-term flood pattern evolution at a sub-continental scale and; ii) to investigate the role of the climate variability on the high-impact flood patterns at centennial to millennial time-scales in W Mediterranean. The ER has expertise in high-resolution proxies of flood events contained in lacustrine and fluvial sediments. He aims to obtain specific training in geo-statistical tools applied to Flood Hydrology at the Host Organization. This MSCA project will significantly contribute to the career development of the researcher and will enhance our current understanding of the natural variability of floods and its trace in the sedimentary record. Therefore, this study will help to address major concerns in relation to flood hazards and adaptation strategies in line with the European engagement with climate change (EU report 2012, Horizon 2020, Climate Action) and the EU Floods directive (2007/60/EC). |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/796752 |
River and estuaries', 'Urban water' |
| projects-525 |
FI-CP3C3-II6 |
Hydro-RI Platform |
Hydrological Research Infrastructure Platform |
Water4All |
Not available |
Not applicable |
2022-01-01 |
2024-12-31 |
Completed |
No data |
A competence center of the water sector for boreal and subarctic river and lake environments is needed. It will facilitate solving environmental issues (e.g. erosion, flooding, water quality) of these fragile environments. We will develop a HYDRO-RI-Platform including a pool of unique instruments for hydrological, hydraulic, morphodynamic and water quality measurements, with a variety of autonomous under- and above-water sensor platforms, a mobile field laboratory facility, and a data sharing platform to study essential scientific questions in present and future hydrology. The new research infrastructure with high-accuracy and -frequency data sets, and their efficient/real-time and open sharing, enable world-leading research, training new generations of scientists, and new services and business solutions within the water sector. These enable sustainable water resources management, decision-making, efficient knowledge transfer and future environmental assessment. |
https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/research/hydro-ri-platform |
Rivers and estuaries', 'Lake' |
| projects-526 |
No data |
WAMA-WADIT |
Water management and adapation based on watershed digital twins |
Water4All |
Not available |
Not applicable |
2024-05-01 |
2027-04-30 |
On going |
No data |
This project will contribute to enhance resilience, adaptation and mitigation of hydroclimatic extreme events, such as floods and droughts, by improving our capability to predict and simulate water resource systems through watershed digital twins. Building on hydrological and water resource system models developed at partner institutions (University of Cordoba, IHCantabria, University of Trento, Université Grenoble Alpes, University of Bristol), we will advance the representation of natural and regulated hydrological systems in watershed digital twins., and particularly the interactions between surface and groundwater flows, and snow dynamics, under present and future climate scenarios. We will work with water agencies across different countries to test the use of watershed digital twins to support water management practice, particularly in scarcely monitored areas, and better communicate and handle uncertainties. We will develop free and open-source software tools to help quantify and evaluate risk, and inform both short-term operational decisions and long-term adaptation actions. |
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY036999%2F1 |
Groundwater', 'Snow and ice' |
| projects-527 |
1708 |
AG-WaMED |
Advancing non conventional water management for innovative climate-resilient water governance in the Mediterranean Area |
PRIMA |
PRIMA-2021 |
Water Management |
2022-09-01 |
2025-08-31 |
On going |
€ 002 453 921.00 |
The project Advancing non conventional water management for innovative climate-resilient water governance in the Mediterranean Area (AG-WaMED) aims at providing innovative, evidence-based participatory management solutions to water scarcity governance that can be scaled at the Mediterranean level. In particular, the project will tackle the problem of water scarcity by including Non Conventional Waters (NCW) (wastewater, runoff water harvesting, desalination) among the available resources to be included in water governance policies. The project will reach its envisioned objectives through a transdisciplinary approach, integrating the state of the art of land, water and agronomic modelling to support evidence-based water management in four Living Labs (LLs) located in Mediterranean watersheds (including a transboundary case). A participatory modelling suite will allow the co-definition and co-evaluation of different water allocation scenarios for improving water governance in each LL, taking into account the decisive impact of NCW use to ensure climate-resilient strategies under a climate change vision. A flexible yet comprehensive socio-economic approach procedure will enable the evaluation of such scenarios and will trigger a feedback mechanism to generate an adaptive learning environment in the AG-WaMED LLs. The full process will inform new water allocation models and will produce an innovative framework for improving water governance and for reducing conflicts in water-stressed contexts of the Mediterranean. |
https://mel.cgiar.org/projects/ag-wamed |
Urban water', 'Coastal waters' |
| projects-528 |
2009 |
WATER4MED |
Water management strategies and Adaptation acTions undER a global change context FOR the MEDiterranean region |
PRIMA |
PRIMA-2023 |
Water Management |
2024-06-01 |
2027-05-31 |
On going |
€ 000 835 962.00 |
Pressure over water resources is increasing rapidly as a consequence of the climate change and growing population. As a result, water shortage is expected in the next future. In addition, the frequency, intensity and length of extreme climatic events will increase alternating drought periods with extreme precipitation that may cause flooding. In this context, it is needed to develop and incorporate robust and advanced approaches and tools into water governance models to allow defining better practices and designing efficient and sustainable water management strategies. WATER4MED aims at (i) developing robust numerical tools by coupling hydrological and hydrogeological models for estimating realistically the evolution of water resources under the impact of climate change and growing demand, (ii) proposing new approaches for establishing the resilience capacity of water systems against meteorological events, (iii) applying advanced methods to assess the vulnerability and quality of water bodies, paying special attention to contaminants of emerging concern, (iv) assessing the suitability of flood-MAR to minimise floods and increase stored freshwater, and (v), incorporating data and approaches resulting from WATER4MED into integrative tools for water resources management. WATER4MED will be developed in 4 demonstration sites (Spain, Tunisia, Portugal and Morocco) and the replicability of the developed approaches will be assessed in two additional Mediterranean countries (Lebanon and Jordan), from which Lebanon is not represented in the consortium. Finally, it is worth to mention that WATER4MED will allow reducing future water-related conflicts by providing tools and data to improve governance models such as (i) information about water availability, (ii) methods based on monitoring and modelling to know the evolution of water resources under climate change, (iii) techniques for increasing stored water and minimising floods, and (iv) preserve the quality and quantity of water resources. |
https://mel.cgiar.org/projects/water4med |
Rivers and estuaries', 'Water reservoir', 'Groundwater', 'Urban water' |
| projects-529 |
1504 |
SMARTIES |
Real time smart irrigation management at multiple stakeholders’ levels |
PRIMA |
PRIMA-2019 |
Water Management |
2020-03-10 |
2023-03-10 |
Completed |
€ 001 802 464.00 |
The objective of the project is to improve farm and irrigation district water use efficiency and farm profitability developing a real-time operational water and economic management web-gis system for parsimonious and precise irrigation optimizing exact water use and relative water productivity, integrating farm analysis into irrigation district ones. The tool will allow to monitor and forecast the soil moisture behaviour to define the right irrigation volume, optimizing water and economic indicators. The tool supports different levels of stakeholder: i) farmers who control soil moisture avoiding plant water and saline stress, ii) irrigation consortia which allocates water among users; iii) water authorities which manage water withdraw from reservoirs. In addition, the tools present also the possibility to be used as simulator of water allocation supporting decision strategy in real time and for seasonal forecast scenarios. Multi satellite data, ground measurements, daily and seasonal meteorological forecast, soil water budget numerical modelling, crop growth model and economic analysis will support the tool. The proposed tool will be applied in different case studies of the Mediterranean area: Italy, Spain, Egypt Tunisia and Morocco and also in China, characterized by different climatic conditions, fresh and saline water availability, crop types, irrigation practices, polices and water pricing. |
https://mel.cgiar.org/projects/smarties |
Water reservoir', 'Urban water' |
| projects-530 |
1583 |
ACQUAOUNT |
Adapting to Climate change by QUantifying optimal Allocation of resOUrces and socio-ecoNomic inTerlinkages |
PRIMA |
PRIMA-2020 |
Water Management |
2021-07-01 |
2025-08-31 |
On going |
€ 002 585 325.00 |
According to the SDG 6.5.1 baseline, the degree of development of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) strongly varies among countries and each country presents different criticalities. Further development of IWRM in Mediterranean countries is urgent as Climate Change (CC) projections foresee a reduction and degradation of water resources, while water demand for irrigation is projected to increase driven by an increase in food demand linked to population growth and CC itself. Agriculture is by far the most water demanding sector and a sustainable IWRM cannot be achieved without improving water use efficiency at farm level. On the other hand, improved methods to manage multiple resources (e.g. groundwater, grey water, re-use water) and effectively allocate water to satisfy demands from all sectors are essential to increase water use efficiency at basin and country level, leading to preservation of ecosystems and avoiding over exploitation of water resources. A shared vision exists that digitalization of the water sector is an effective tool to understand the multitude of interdependencies and thus analyse and manage highly complex systems. As such, digitalization holds the potential to positively affect multiple dimensions of water management, including water accounting, intra and inter-sector coordination, financing, governance, faster implementation of new policies and directives. ACQUAOUNT develops and deploys a Web of Things (WoT) platform that uses System Dynamic Modelling tools to integrate data from a digital sensor network (at farm and basin level) and supporting data of multiple types (e.g. Remote sensing, Geo-databases of soil type and crop distribution) and provide information on the behaviour of the physical system. |
https://mel.cgiar.org/projects/acquaount |
Groundwater', 'Urban water' |
