Alpine Drought Prediction

Alpine Drought Prediction

Project duration: September 2024 – August 2027
Project status: ongoingFunding: Alpine Space 2021-2027 (EUTC / EU funding / Project)
Total project budget: €2,444,364.70
ERDF grants: 1 833 274 €
Website: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/a-drop/
Institutes: Institute for Earth Observation, Center for Sensing Solutions, Center for Climate Change and Transformation, Institute for Alpine Environment

The Alps’ climate is increasingly affected by global warming, resulting in changes in climate extremes like droughts. These shifts profoundly impact agricultural and energy production, as well as winter and summer tourism, freshwater supply, and ecosystem services, which all heavily rely on Alpine water. The overall goal of A-DROP is to enhance the Alpine regions’ readiness to cope with droughts and promote sustainable water management. The 11 partners from five AS countries, from research to public administrations, jointly develop and implement comprehensive drought risk management solutions. A-DROP refines and customizes drought monitoring and prediction tools specifically tailored for Alpine regions. These innovations complement the current toolkit of water authorities, laying the groundwork for a unified pan-Alpine prediction system. A-DROP generates high-resolution and consistent climate and hydrological data, drought indices, and impacts, openly accessible and seamlessly integrable with local water management systems. To ensure practical applicability, A-DROP tests and validates both the dataset and tools in real-world scenarios through five pilots involving stakeholders from agriculture, hydropower production, tourism, and water governance. In parallel, A-DROP performs regional climate model simulations to estimate climate change effects on droughts, thus informing decision-making processes, facilitating risk reduction and adaptation pathways, and inspiring policymakers and future generations to embrace behavioral change through heightened awareness. To assist the transition process at the policy and operational levels and the out-scaling of successful practices by water authorities and stakeholders, A-DROP offers tailored training sessions and outreach events. Active contribution of actors from macro-regional strategies and observers from public administrations enable the translation of A-DROP into future strategies for water governance.

Changes in water resources and water demand at a winter-sports resort in the context of climate change

Authors
Audrey VALERY, Hugues FRANCOIS, Carlo CARMAGNOLA, Xavier TRANCHANT, Raphaelle SAMACOITS, Olivier MERMILLOD, Matthieu LE LAY, Franck LECLERCQ, Jean-Michel SOUBEYROUX, Louis GUILY, Samuel MORIN

Journal
La Houille Blanche The DOI of your paper is: 10.1080/27678490.2025.2473589.
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Status
Accepted