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
Impacts of climate change on wetlands affected by groundwater or IMAGUA II is the continuation of the study funded by the call for research projects for non-profit foundations granted by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge during the year 2021 and the present 2022.
Objectives
IMAGUA II has the following objectives:
- Extract the conclusions of the first part of the project and apply them to another wetland in the region to verify the replicability of the methodology.
- Analyze how extreme climate variability (long droughts and episodes of high rainfall concentration) affects groundwater and associated wetlands.
This climatic variability will be measured at different time scales based on the thermo-pluviometric series at seasonal, daily and sub-daily scales, so that estimates can be made of the response of the wetlands and their groundwater, taking into account the data and frequency of measurements of the official foronomic and piezometric control networks. Through the future projection of various climatological variables, it will be possible to estimate the changes in piezometric levels and groundwater reserves associated with wetlands, based on the frequency of measurement of these variables in the official aquifer control networks. In this way, we will estimate the variation of its hydrological cycle with respect to its current state as well as the consequences, risks and threats that such variations will entail for the wetlands.
Results
Among its main results, the following stand out:
- The importance of equipping the piezometers of the different groundwater bodies for the continuous measurement of levels, since it has been seen the importance of correlating climatic variables on a daily and even sub-daily scale with piezometric variables, given that extreme phenomena require this scale of work.
- The need for historical flow measurements to correlate inflow resources to groundwater systems that are directly linked to wetland maintenance.
Funded by
Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through grants to third-sector entities or non-governmental organizations that carry out activities of general interest considered to be of social interest in the field of scientific and technical research and environmental protection under state jurisdiction. This research has been funded by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge but does not express its opinion.
