Nom i cognoms / Name and surname
Enric Aguilar
Afiliació / Affiliation
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
En quin programa de finançament europeu s’enmarca el teu projecte? / Which European funding programme does your project belong to?
EU support (FP7, H2020, etc.) other than MSCA
Títol del projecte / Project title
Indecis
Número del projecte / Project number
690462
Breu explicació del projecte / Brief explanation of your project
Climate, climate variability and change strongly impact Europe. For example, drought severely affects agriculture; precipitation extremes are associated with flooding, severe damage to properties and lives; temperature extremes can increase mortality; the seasonality and availability of snow affects water resources and winter tourism and wind speed or sunshine hours affect the production of renewable energy. These relations can be studied through the computation of climate indices, defined as tailored combinations of climate variables. To be useful, they need to be based on long and reliable climate datasets and be formulated to express relevant and comparable information. INDECIS will provide an integrated approach to produce a set of relevant climate indices targeting the high priority sectors of the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Framework for Climate Services (agriculture, disaster risk reduction, energy, health, water) plus tourism. To accomplish this, INDECIS will inventory and catalogue existing datasets of precipitation, temperature, wind speed and sunshine duration, search new data holdings and develop new methods and tools to operationally assure their quality and homogeneity. In parallel, we will gather information on climate indicators routinely computed by the participating institutions and third parties across Europe and work to improve them in consultation with sectorial experts. It is also intended to use sectorial statistics and teleconnection indices to explore predictive relations and responses to climate variability and change. This will be accompanied by the development of tools for indices near-real time calculation, spatial interpolation, visualization and communication of climate monitors. INDECIS will compare its products with those derived from reanalysis to assess their validity as alternate datasets to produce sectorial indices in the absence of observed datasets and with climate model output for validation and interpretation.
Enllaç a la pàgina web del projecte / Link to your project website
indecis.eu
En quin repte s’emmarca el teu projecte? / What is the challenge of your project?
5. Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials
