Climate Induced Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins: Reducing uncertainty and quantifying risk through an integrated monitoring and modeling system

The strategy of CLIMB is aiming to employ and integrate advanced field monitoring techniques, remote sensing analyses and retrievals, climate models auditing and integrated hydrologic modeling and socioeconomic factor assessment in a new conceptual framework to significantly reduce existing uncertainties in climate change impact analysis. It will create an integrated risk assessment tool for adaptive water resources management and best agricultural practice under climate change conditions.  The risk and vulnerability analysis tool will also enable the assessment of risks for conflict-inducing actions. The improved models, new assessment tools, and their results will be evaluated against current methodologies.  Improvements will be communicated to stakeholders and decision makers in a transparent, easy-to-understand form, enabling them to utilize the new findings in regional water resource and agricultural management initiatives as well as in the design of mechanisms to reduce potential for conflict CLIMB is embedded in a cluster of independent EU- projects with WASSERMed and CLICO, focused on climate induced changes in water resources as a threat to security. The role of CRS4 in the project deals with climate models auditing and downscaling and integrated hydrological modeling.