Objective The aim of the AWARE project is to provide innovative tools for monitoring and predicting of water availability and distribution in those drainage basins where snowmelt is a major component of the annual water balance, a common condition in Alpine catchm ents. Recent droughts observed in these basins call for the need of an efficient technology to predict medium and long-term flows for sustainable water resources management. The project will develop appropriate mathematical models to represent snow-pack dynamics and snowmelt runoff. These models will be expressly designed to integrate Earth Observation data and in-situ hydrological and meteorological measurements, introducing therefore a novel approach to the representation of the involved physical pro cesses in time and space. Model innovation stems with the enhanced capability of Earth Observation data to provide continuous information on state variables, that can be poorly accounted for using the traditional approach based on input-output control. Model calibration, validation and demonstration will be performed for representative catchments of different geographic conditions (climate, geology, geomorphology, hydrography) in the European Alps. Models will be implemented in a geo-service for tailor ing data and models to different environments under an integrated, but modulated approach capable of effective addressing the specific problems raising from different stakeholders, these including water policy makers, economic (hydropower companies, irr igation schemes, municipal water supply), and social (regional, basin and municipal authorities, citizens) stakeholders. The geo-service, fully compliant with the architecture of the Inspire initiative, will be capable of coupling global and local data to compute, archive, upgrade and distribute snow derived information. Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologydrainage basinsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologygeomorphologyengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhydroelectricity Programme(s) FP6-AEROSPACE - Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) AERO-2003-2.3.2.1a - Water resources Call for proposal FP6-2003-SPACE-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE EU contribution No data Address Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 ROMA Italy See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all POLITECNICO DI MILANO Italy EU contribution No data Address P.za Leonardo da Vinci, 32 MILANO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR FOREST, SNOW AND LANDSCAPE RESEARCH Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Flüelastr.11 DAVOS See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA, FACULTY OF CIVIL AND GEODETIC ENGINEERING Slovenia EU contribution No data Address Jamova 2 PP 3422 LJUBLJANA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data REMOTE SENSING DATA ENGINEERING SRL Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Podgora 13 MILANO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT JAUME I Spain EU contribution No data Address AVENIDA VICENT SOS BAYNAT, S/N CASTELLON DE LA PLANA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUT CARTOGRÀFIC DE CATALUNYA Spain EU contribution No data Address Parc de Montjuïc s/n BARCELONA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WIEN, INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING Austria EU contribution No data Address Karlsplatz 13/222 VIENNA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data