Objective
CIRCE aims at developing for the first time an assessment of the climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area.
The objectives of the project are:
- To predict and to quantify physical impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean area
- To evaluate the consequences of climate change for the society and the economy of the populations located in the Mediterranean area
- To develop an integrated approach to understand combined effects of climate change
- To identify adaptation and mitigation strategies in collaboration with regional stakeholders CIRCE wants to understand and to explain how climate will change in the Mediterranean area.
The project will investigate how global and Mediterranean climates interact, how the radiative properties of the atmosphere and the radiative fluxes vary, the interaction between cloudiness and aerosol, the modifications in the water cycle. Recent observed modifications in the climate variables and detected trends will be compared. The economic and social consequences of climate change shall be evaluated by analyzing direct impacts on migration, tourism and energy markets together with indirect impacts on the economic system. CIRCE will moreover investigate the consequences on agriculture, forests and ecosystems. human health and air quality.
The variability of extreme events in the future scenario and their impacts will be assessed. A rigorous common framework, including a set of quantitative indicators developed specifically for the Mediterranean environment will be developed and used in collaboration with regional stakeholders.
The results will be incorporated in a decision support system tool and disseminated to the relevant users. Possible adaptation and mitigation strategies will be identified. The integrated results discussed by the project CIRCE will be presented in the first Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean area.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP6-2005-GLOBAL-4
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Funding Scheme
IP - Integrated ProjectCoordinator
ROMA
Italy
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Participants (65)
MADRID
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PATERNA, VALENCIA
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CASTELFRANCO EMILIA
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KOBENHAVN
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HERAKLION, CRETE
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ROMA
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MILANO
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MADRID
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ATHINA
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ROMA
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POTSDAM
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PARIS
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PARIS
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MADRID
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KOBENHAVN
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PARIS CEDEX 07
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SWINDON WILTSHIRE
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MUENCHEN
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ATHINA
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SALAMMBO
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HAIFA
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WIEN
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BRUSSELS
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BARCELONA
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ROMA
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PARIS
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EXETER
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VITERBO
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YORK
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BIRMINGHAM
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LEIOA BIZKAIA
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BARCELONA
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ATHINA
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TEL AVIV
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ALCALA DE HENARES/MADRID
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MILANO
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NORWICH
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LISBOA
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HAMBURG
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MYTILENE
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CAIRO
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BERN
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COPPITO, L'AQUILA
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BERLIN
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LECCE
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POTSDAM
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AMSTERDAM
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JERUSALEM
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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
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LECCE
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TUNIS
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ORAN
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ALEPPO
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ANAVISSOS ATTIKI
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SOUTHAMPTON
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BEER SHEVA
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VILLIGEN PSI
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ATHINA
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SGONICO-TRIESTE
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BOLOGNA
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TOULOUSE
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OXFORD
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27456 NICOSIA
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GEESTHACHT
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PALMA DE MALLORCA
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