Objective TO PREDICT MORE ACCURATELY THE IMPORTANT REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN THE EFFECTS OF CHANGING CLIMATE. TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON SOIL WATER DEFICITS IN VARIOUS EUROPEAN REGIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF STUDYING DESERTIFICATION AND RELATED PROBLEMS. THE PROJECT INVOLVES FOUR MAIN COMPONENTS : (A) THE STUDY OF THE ROLE OF SOIL MOISTURE IN LAND SURFACE PROCESSES AT VARIOUS SCALES, FROM THE POINT SCALE OF SOIL PHYSICS TO THE GLOBAL SCALE OF GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; (B) THE COMPARISON OF THE FEASIBILITY AND REALIABILITY OF VARIOUS MACRO-SCALE MODELS OF LAND SURFACE PROCESSES INVOLVING VARYING DEGREES OF PARAMETERISATION OF SMALLER SCALE PROCESSES; (C) AN EXAMINATION OF THE DIRECT USE OF REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE PARAMETERS IN CLIMATE MODELS; (D) ASSESSMENT OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESULTS FOR DESERTIFICATION AND RELATED PROBLEMS IN EUROPE. THE LMD GROUP WOULD IMPROVE THE EXISTING AND DEVELOP NEW PARAMETIZATION SCHEMES OF LAND SURFACE PROCESSES IN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS IN COOPERATION WITH HAPEX AND OTHER PROJECT COMPONENTS.HAPEX RESULTS WILL ALSO BE USED FOR THE STUDY OF CLIMATE SENSITIVITY AND VARIATION OF VEGETATION COVER.MODEL CALCULATIONS WOULD BE PERFORMED OF THE INTERCEPTION AND THE STORAGE OF LIQUID WATER BY THE VEGETATION AND THE RUN-OFF WOULD BE TREATED AS A FUNCTION OF SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRECIPITATION.THE MODEL WOULD BE USED WITH A VERY HIGH RESOLUTION FOR A BETTER DEFINITION OF SOIL CONDITIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE. Programme(s) FP1-CLIMAT 3C - Multiannual R&D programmes (EEC) in the field of the environment - Climatology and natural hazards - , 1986-1990 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Address 24 rue lhomond 75231 Paris France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AGRICULTURAL UNIV WAGENINGEN EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map CENTRE NAT DE RECHERCHE METEOROLOGIQUE EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map DEPT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map INST DE MECANIQUE DE GRENOBLE EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map
