WATCH IP. Water and Global Change. Second year Activity report to the European Commission

Warnaars, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5146-4946; Harding, Richard; Blyth, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5052-238X; Hagemann, Stefan; Weedon, Graham; Tallaksen, Lena; van Lanen, Henny; Ludwig, Fulco. 2009 WATCH IP. Water and Global Change. Second year Activity report to the European Commission. NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. (CEH Project Number: C03276)

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Abstract/Summary

The Integrated Project (WATCH) brings together the hydrological, water resources and climate communities to analyse, quantify and predict the components of the current and future global water cycles and related water resources, evaluate their uncertainties and clarify the overall vulnerability of global water resources related to the main societal and economic sectors. WATCH project will: • analyse and describe the current global water cycle, especially causal chains leading to observable changes in extremes (droughts and floods) • evaluate how the global water cycle and its extremes respond to future drivers of global change (including greenhouse gas release and land cover change) • evaluate feedbacks in the coupled system as they affect the global water cycle • evaluate the uncertainties in the predictions of coupled climate-hydrological- land-use models using a combination of model ensembles and observations • develop an enhanced (modelling) framework to assess the future vulnerability of water as a resource, and in relation to water/climate related vulnerabilities and risks of the major water related sectors, such as agriculture, nature and utilities (energy, industry and drinking water sector) • provide comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessments and predictions of the vulnerability of the water resources and water-/climate-related vulnerabilities and risks for the 21st century • collaborate intensively with the key leading research groups on water cycle and water resources in USA, Japan, India and other countries. • collaborate intensively in dissemination of its scientific results with major research programmes worldwide (through, for example: WCRP, IGBP, GSWP) • collaborate intensively in dissemination of its practical and applied results with major water resources and water management platforms and professional organisations worldwide (e.g. WWC, IWA) and at a scale of 5 selected river basins in Europe.

Item Type:	Publication - Report
Programmes:	CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Biogeochemistry > CC01B Land-surface Feedbacks in the Climate System CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Water
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Harding (to July 2011)
Funders/Sponsors:	European Commission, NERC/Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Water and Global Change. Sixth Framework Programme. Priority 1.1.6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems Available from WATCH website http://eu-watch.org/nl/25222685-%5BLink_page%5D.html?location=-1083501812489521,10307685
Additional Keywords:	Water cycle, climate change, hydrology, modelling, feedbacks, water resources
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences Hydrology
Related URLs:	Project Website
Date made live:	25 Aug 2009 11:19 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/7845

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