Descrizione del progetto
Nuovi strumenti di previsione per aiutare la gestione della qualità dell’acqua
Cambiamenti climatici, eventi estremi e variazioni meteorologiche nel lungo periodo influiscono notevolmente sulla qualità dell’acqua di fiumi, laghi e bacini. Di conseguenza, vi è la necessità urgente di strumenti in grado di prevedere l’impatto dei cambiamenti ambientali, consentendo alla gestione idrica di salvaguardare la qualità dell’acqua in modo efficace. Il progresso tecnologico ha portato alla creazione di nuovi prodotti di dati meteorologici e di innovativi strumenti di modellizzazione che hanno consentito previsioni affidabili sulla qualità dell’acqua di laghi e fiumi, a livello sia regionale sia globale. Il progetto inventWater, finanziato dall’UE, realizzerà una piattaforma volta a fornire una formazione interdisciplinare avanzata alla futura generazione di specialisti dell’acqua. Tale formazione verterà su discipline quali scienza dei dati, clima, idrologia ed ecologia delle acque dolci, con particolare attenzione allo sviluppo e all’applicazione in condizioni reali di innovativi strumenti di previsione della qualità idrica in grado di supportare processi decisionali rapidi e affidabili e politiche di adattamento a lungo termine.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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)Coordinatore
28006 Madrid
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