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. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0Improvements 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11908,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[],"class_list":["post-19681","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"title":"Climate Induced Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins: Reducing uncertainty and quantifying risk through an integrated monitoring and modeling system","acronym":"CLIMB","project_uuid":"61835256-b567-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","start_date":"01\/01\/2010","end_date":"01\/01\/2014","funder":"EU FP7","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen-Department of Geography<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Agenzia per la Ricerca in Agricoltura-Sardegna<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel-Department of Geography, Land<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Centre national du Machinisme Agricole, du G\u00e9nie Rural, des Eau et des For\u00eats<\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Centre de Recherche et des Technologies des Eaux<\/a><\/td>\n | Tunisia<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Fisica delle Atmosfere e delle Idrosfere<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.-German Remote Sensing <\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH-Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere <\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Gebze Yuksek Teknoloji Enstitusu-Department of Environmental Engineering<\/a><\/td>\n | Turkey<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau, Terre et Environment(ETE)<\/a><\/td>\n | Canada<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH-Institute of Technology and Regional Policy (RTG) and Institute of Energy Research (IEF)<\/td>\n | Austria<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universite d'Angers<\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Islamic University of Gaza<\/td>\n | Palestinian Authority<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Padova (Dipartimento di Geoscienze)<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Universit\u00e0\u00a0degli Studi di Trento (Centro Universitario per la Difesa Idrogeologica nell\u2019Ambiente Montano)<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Zagazig University<\/a><\/td>\n | Egypt<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Geowissenschaftliche Fernerkundung GmbH<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Bayerische Forschungsallianz Gemeinnutzige GmbH<\/a><\/td>\n | Germany<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","proj_website":"http:\/\/www.climb-fp7.eu","project_status":"Completed","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10281,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:12","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:12","post_content":"Senior researcher at CRS4, he is head of the Environmental Sciences branch of the Energy & Environment program. His research interests are related to meteorological mesoscale ensemble prediction, climatic modelling and environmental data analysis. Currently, between the others, he is involved in the EU-H2020 Netfficient project for the development of a energy production, from renewable sources, forecasting system. Recently involved in the EU-FP7 CLIMB project in which CRS4 evaluated and compared the skill of various regional climate models as boundary conditions for hydrological modelling scenario studies in the Mediterranean basin area. Within the projects GRIDA3 and CYBERSAR, funded by the Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), he was involved in setting up a multi-model multianalysis limited area ensemble to be run on a GRID infrastructure and\/or remote computing portals. He has been involved in many other European and Italian research programs: FP7, Interreg IIC, FP6, for European Southern Observatory, for the Italian Space Agency, MIUR, National Council of Research (CNR), Italian Electric Power Company (ENEL).","post_title":"Marino Marrocu","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"marino-marrocu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:12:17","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:12:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/marino-marrocu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":10183,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:22:26","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:22:26","post_content":"Pierluigi Cau holds a Laurea (M.Sc.) degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Cagliari and works at CRS4 as a reasercher in the Environmental Sciences program of the Energy and Environment sector since 2000. His research topics are focused on computational hydrology, Geographical Information Systems and development of innovative WEB ICT tools for the management of water and soil resources. He organized international workshops\/conferences and taught advanced courses on hydrological (both superficial and groundwater) modeling at universities. He has tutored several stagers and early stage researchers.","post_title":"Pierluigi Cau","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pierluigi-cau","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:10:31","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:10:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/pierluigi-cau\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10038,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:25:50","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:25:50","post_content":"Gabriella Pusceddu graduated in Physics at the University of Cagliari. Since 2000 she works as researcher at CRS4. Currently, she is working in the Environmental Sciences program since January 2006. Her interests are related to the application of numerical models and other computational tools to analize meteo and climatological data, the application of limited area models for the prediction of extreme events, the implementation of ensemble prediction systems, the Regional Climat Models downscaling. In recent years, she has developed competences in high performance computing and GRID computing.","post_title":"Gabriella Pusceddu","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"gabriella-pusceddu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:13:46","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:13:46","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/gabriella-pusceddu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":10249,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:23:33","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:23:33","post_content":"After a twenty-year career in scientific research, in 2010 Giuditta Lecca moved into the management sector, specializing on facilitating information exchange and collaboration between people. Since then, she is the Head of the Program \"Valorisation and Transfer of Knowledge\" (VALE) and, from September 2012 to October 2016, she was also serving as acting Director of the Sector \"Business Development\" (BD). Before she was a senior researcher in Environmental Sciences of the Energy and Environment Program. She holds a Civil Engineering degree (1991) from the University of Cagliari and a Master on Valorisation and Management of Human Resources from the Catholic University of Milan and Confindustria (2005). Her research is focused on computational hydrogeology and high-performance computing, and it is published in major journals and conferences. From 1998 to 2010 she was scientific responsible for 8+ R&D projects at the regional, national and european level and tutor of 10+ stagers and early-stage researchers. Since 2004 she has organized and chaired international workshops and conferences and taught advanced courses at universities on groundwater modeling. In 2007 she received in Maputo the IEEE Best Paper Award at the IST Africa Conference in Mozambique. She served extensively as reviewer for scientific international journals and, from 2007 to 2009, as Associated Editor of the Hydrogeology Journal edited by Springer. In the last 10 years she has focused her interests, either through professional practice that with professional certifications, on project management, intellectual property rights, funding policies and instruments, business intelligence and strategic leadership of scientific research and technological innovation.Professional certifications: Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills, University of Michigan, nov 2015; Intellectual Property Law and Policy (part 1-mar 2016, part 2-feb 2018) University of Pennsylvania; Private Equity and Venture Capital, Universit\u00e0 Bocconi, jul 2016; PM9001x: Project Management Life Cycle, Rochester Institute of Technology, apr 2017. Further information at the Linkedin personal page","post_title":"Giuditta Lecca","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"giuditta-lecca","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:11:43","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:11:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/giuditta-lecca\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |