Central and Eastern Europe Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment

Objective

The main objective of CECILIA is to deliver a climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment in targeted areas of Central and Eastern Europe. Emphasis is given to applications of regional climate modelling studies at a resolution of 10 km for local impact studies in key sectors of the region. The project contains studies of hydrology, water quality and water management (focusing at medium-sized river catchments and the Black Sea coast), air quality issues in urban areas (Black Triangle - a polluted region around the common borders of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany), agriculture (crop yield, pests and diseases, carbon cycle), and forestry (management, carbon cycle). Very high-resolution simulations over this region are necessary due to the presence of complex topographical and land use features.

Climate change impacts on large urban and industrial areas modulated by topographical and land-use effects, which can be resolved at the 10 km scale, are investigated by CECILIA. The high spatial and temporal resolution of dense national observational networks at high temporal resolution and of the CECILIA regional model experiments will uniquely feed into investigations of climate change consequences for weather extremes in the region under study. Comparison with the results based on statistical downscaling techniques will also be provided. Statistical downscaling methods for verification of the regional model results will be developed and applied, and assessments of their use in localization of mo del output for impact studies will be performed.

Field of science

• /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/hydrology
• /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/natural resource management/water management
• /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/air pollution engineering
• /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/atmospheric sciences/climatology/climatic changes

Programme(s)

• FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• SUSTDEV-2005-3.I.3.2 - Climate changes in central-eastern Europe

Call for proposal

FP6-2005-GLOBAL-4
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE

Address

Ovocny Trh 5
Praha 1
Czechia

Participants (15)

ADMINISTRATIA NATIONALA DE METEOROLOGIE

Romania

Address

Sos. Bucuresti-ploiesti 97
Bucuresti

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS

Greece

Address

Administration Building, University Campus
Thessaloniki

BOKU - UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN

Austria

Address

Gregor Mendel Strasse 33
Wien

CESKY HYDROMETEOROLOGICKY USTAV

Czechia

Address

Na Sabatce 17
Praha 4

DANMARKS METEOROLOGISKE INSTITUT.

Denmark

Address

Lyngbyvej 100
Koebenhavn

EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH

Switzerland

Address

Raemistrasse 101
Zurich

EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM

Hungary

Address

Egyetem Ter 1-3
Budapest

INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE HIDROLOGIE SI GOSPODARIRE A APELOR

Romania

Address

Sos. Bucuresti-ploiesti 97, Sector 1
Bucharest

METEO-FRANCE

France

Address

Quai Branly 1
Paris

NARODNE LESNICKE CENTRUM

Slovakia

Address

T.g. Masaryka 22
Zvolen

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY OF THE BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Bulgaria

Address

Blvd. Tzarigradsko Shose 66
Sofia

ORSZAGOS METEOROLOGIAI SZOLGALAT

Hungary

Address

Kitaibel P. U. 1
Budapest

POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA

Poland

Address

Plac Politechniki 1
Warszawa

THE ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Italy

Address

Strada Costiera, 11
Trieste

USTAV FYZIKY ATMOSFERY AV CR

Czechia

Address

Bocni Ii, 1401
Praha 4