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CEOP – AEGIS and Water – Climate Hot Spots

Massimo MenentiDelft University of Technology

Jerome ColinUniversité de Strasbourg

Session 3 B Water, Agriculture, Ecosystems, Biodiversity

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Water Balance Model domain

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CEOP – AEGIS vs. EUGENE

• CEOP – AEGIS data products properly documented in Status Quo Report Water with accurate linkages to GEO Tasks

• CEOP – AEGIS not mentioned in the European GEOSS Workshop on Water

• CEOP – AEGIS irrelevant to European contribution to GEO?

• Does information on GEO Tasks gets lost in the process?

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Climate Change Adaptation

• hydrological observations, analyses and predictions• mitigate the impacts of climate change • remove the underlying causes of vulnerability to climate change• Themes:

– Short- and long-term hydrological variability and climate change– Resilience versus vulnerability of hydrologic systems– Resilience of hydrological systems to climate variability– Identifying and removing the causes of the vulnerability of hydrological

systems to climate change– Reconstruction of adaptation mechanisms to hydrological variability in the

recent past

• Need to integrate very diverse data and models river-wise

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Water balance observations from space

• Gravity (GRACE)

• Radar altimetry (water level)

• Laser altimetry (water level, ice and snow)

• High resolution DSM (ALOS / PRISM)

• SAR interferometry

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CEOP-AEGIS (F, NL, D , E, IT): A protoype observation system for water resources in South – East Asia: ground and space observations

SHARE – PAPRIKA (IT, F): Cryospheric responses to anthropogenic pressures in the Hindu Kush – Karakoram – Himalaya regions:impacts on water resources and availability.

THIRD POLE ENVIRONMENT (D, NL): water - ice - air - ecosystem - human interactions

G-WADI (UNESCO): strengthen the capacity to manage the water resources of arid and semi-arid areas around the globe

Opportunities to join forces

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The map shows the importance of melt water to downstream areas (pie charts) and the number of people threatened in their food security due to

reduction in upstream flow due to climate change

Climate Change Will Affect the Asian

Water TowersImmerzeel et al., 2010