Local climate change projections
We design tools to simulate expected changes in future climate and assess how they may affect us through risk and vulnerability analysis.
About the project
REWET is based on a network of seven carefully selected demonstrators covering a range of local conditions, geographic features, governance structures and social/cultural settings to fully understand the wetland/carbon/climate nexus and provide a replication plan to successfully drive wetland restoration across Europe and internationally.
Wetland conservation
FIC coordinates all the modeling activities carried out during the project, developing two specific tasks related to wetland conservation in a context of climate change.
In the first task, future climate simulations are generated for all 7 pilot cases of the project, complying with all scientific and technical requirements for their use in climate change adaptation. The simulations are generated from Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) and Eurocordex global projections.
The second task uses OL data and future climate scenarios (based on CMIP6) to model the impact of climate change on emissions, carbon sequestration and biodiversity in the wetlands of the 7 pilot cases. The FIC models, the effect of drought, temperature rise, flooding on wetlands in terms of carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services in different time periods (2022 – 2030), (2030 – 2050), (2050 – 2100), (2100 – 2300). For this purpose, first bibliographic data are used and then data from each pilot case are considered to analyze the correlation of the local climate with the different environmental components to be analyzed.
Funded by
European Union
