Objective
The objectives are to investigate the interaction between Mediterranean climate, land use and soil erosion and productivity in the light of anticipated changes in climate due to greenhouse warming and land-use changes due to agricultural policy.
In order to achieve these objectives the following investigations will be carried out:
Climatological investigations
- Regional scale short term climatology
- Climatic data management and provision
- Extreme events and the long term record
Physical modelling
- Process models of climate-ecology and land degradation interactions
- Surface and subsurface hydrology
- Implementation of SHE model
Remote sensing and archiving
- In situ measurements of spectral reflectances and regional analysis of change
- Calibration of remotely sensed data
The socio-economic dimensions of desertification
- Landscape dynamics in relation to desertification
- Dynamical systems models
Field site investigations
Field sites in five Mediterranean countries will provide case studies and data for model parameterization and validation and offer a range of conditions for evaluating the impact of desertification on natural and abandoned sites.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsdynamical systems
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatology
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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BS8 1TH Bristol
United Kingdom
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Participants (16)
54006 Thessaloniki
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50122 Firenze
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11855 Athens
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45060 Orléans
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04001 Almeria
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MK43 0AL Bedford
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1749-077 Lisboa
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3000 Leuven
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NR4 7TJ Norwich
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Leeds
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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81100 Mytilini
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30001 Murcia
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46100 Valencia
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1093 BS Amsterdam
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09100 Cagliari
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