National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture - IRSTEA

National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture

FranceResearch institute

Irstea is a public institute under the joint supervision of the French Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Agriculture, and is holder of an agreement with the Ministry of Environment. It has about 1550 employees, working in 9 regional centres in France, within 3 scientific departments and 19 research units. Its activities focus on research with a strong technological and methodological component, in the areas of environment, land management, water-related risks and natural disasters. IRSTEA has built a multidisciplinary and systemic approach to three domains: water, eco-technologies and land. The institute boasts a dual culture of researchers and engineers, who tackle environmental matters from three angles: research, innovation and expertise.

https://www.inrae.fr/en
, France

IRSTEA & JPI Climate

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Projects

AQUACLEW

Advancing Quality of Climate Services for European Water

Climate services

Documents

Article in journal
Summertime precipitation extremes in a EURO-CORDEX 0.11° ensemble at an hourly resolution.
Article in journal
A comparison of hydrological climate services at different scales by users and scientists.
Article in journal
How the performance of hydrological models relates to credibility of projections under climate change.
Article in journal
Climate change: Sources of uncertainty in precipitation and temperature projections for Denmark.
Article in journal
An information theory approach to identifying a representative subset of hydro-climatic simulations for impact modeling studies.
Article in journal
Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems.

Programmes

ERA4CS

European Research Area for Climate Services

ERA-NET Cofund for Climate Services - This ERA-NET Consortium has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe, by supporting research for developing better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate information to cope with current and future climate variability.

IRSTEA