Descripción del proyecto
Nuevas herramientas de predicción para la gestión de la calidad del agua
El cambio climático a largo plazo, los fenómenos extremos y las variaciones meteorológicas afectan gravemente a la calidad del agua de los ríos, lagos y embalses. En consecuencia, deben desarrollarse con urgencia instrumentos que anticipen los efectos de los cambios ambientales y permitan una gestión del agua que mantenga su calidad de forma eficaz. Los progresos tecnológicos han dado lugar a nuevos productos de datos meteorológicos y a instrumentos de modelización innovadores que permiten la obtención de predicciones fiables para la calidad del agua de ríos y largos, tanto a escala regional como mundial. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos inventWater creará una plataforma que ofrezca formación interdisciplinaria avanzada a la próxima generación de especialistas hídricos. El proyecto proporcionará formación en ciencia de datos, clima, hidrología y ecología de agua dulce, centrándose en el desarrollo y la aplicación en el mundo real de instrumentos innovadores de predicción de la calidad del agua que permitan la toma de decisiones rápidas y fiables, así como la elaboración de políticas de adaptación a largo plazo.
Objetivo
Long-term climate change, extreme events, and seasonal variations in weather have profound impacts on water quality of rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. This implies a pressing need for tools anticipating the impacts of these environmental changes, and enabling effective water management that safeguards the ecosystem goods and services freshwaters provide. The increasing availability of new meteorological data products and advances in modelling tools now mean that it is possible for the first time to produce reliable forecasts for lake and river water quality on a regional and global scale, an unexploited potential in the water sector. Water managers will therefore profit from the education of a new generation of interdisciplinary trained professionals able to bridge fields such as data science, climate, hydrology, and freshwater ecology, who at the same time develop the necessary skills to translate knowledge and technical novelties into products useful for managers, policy-makers, and the general public. The primary objective of inventWater is to organize a platform providing cutting edge cross disciplinary education of tomorrow's water experts. The core activity is the training program, focused on the development and real-world application of inventive water quality forecasting tools across a range of time-scales, to support fast and reliable decision making as well as long-term adaptation policies. inventWater will bring water quality forecasting to the forefront of the scientific disciplines supporting water managers and policy-makers to design measures for adaptation to a new climate. The composition of the network and the multidisciplinary of the PhD projects will make tools developed by inventWater fellows applicable to a wide range of pressing water quality issues, from local adaptation to increases of climatic extreme events, to supporting adaptation strategies to climate change and achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesfreshwater biology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
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