Project Sites as deliverables from the project themes (a small selection)
CS2 - Monitoring and profiling with the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research (CESAR)
This project provides the essential infrastructure for the continuation, extension and maintenance of the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research (CESAR) monitoring programme. Among other topics, it provides information on aerosols and clouds, a subject identified as suffering from one of the most acute shortages of date within the climate sciences. The information obtained from the measurements will be implemented in weather and climate models, leading to several important improvements in the climate scenarios. The website provides information about the programma, the programme, instruments and papers.
A7 - Developing Adaptive Capacity to Extreme events in the Rhine basin (ACER)
The ACER project aims at identifying how long term developments such as climate change, socio economic developments, spatial planning and policy developments influence water management in the Rhine basin. The project develops an integrated Rhine model that enables quantifying the effects of term trends on the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts in the Rhine. An important issue will be to assess changes in future flood and drought probabilities.
Different water management strategies will be developed to cope with future impacts. The strategies are targeted at areas in both Germany and the Netherlands and will be developed with stakeholders from both countries in a series of workshops. The strategies will be evaluated as to how they mitigate extreme events and lower risk (probability * damage) in especially the NiederRhein area at the border of Germany and the Netherlands. Look at the ACER website.
IC3 - National adaptation strategies
The LANDS projects seeks at identifying climate-change driven spatial changes in land use and land development, and integrate changes in agriculture, industry, housing and nature sectors into balanced national visions and regional solutions. The project will emphasize the cross cutting issues water resources and nature conservation: these require coordination between national level and regional level decision making, as well as between regions. For all these impacts, integrated adaptation strategies will be identified by exploring possible and feasible re-arrangements of land use in The Netherlands. This will be done at two scales: the local scale and the national scale.
Go to the LANDS website to read more about the different research projects or read more in the Project Factsheet (pdf)
A9 - Financial arrangements for disaster losses under climate change
Scientific evidence shows that the global direct economic losses from weather-related natural disasters have been rapidly increasing over the past decades. Extreme precipitation, river flooding and droughts inflict much damage, especially in low-lying deltaic areas, such as The Netherlands. More damage in the future can be expected if increased climate change will cause more extreme weather events, such as more intense precipitation. Emerging questions are whether current water management is sufficiently robust against extreme weather conditions and what adaptation measures can be formulated in response to increased risks. Moreover, further research is necessary to assess the possible impacts of climate change on existing insurance arrangements in the Netherlands. This may help the government and insurance sector in identifying measures to cope with changing risks.
Go to the NCIP website to read more about the project, publications and products.
