CLIMALERT

Climate Alert Smart System for Sustainable Water and Agriculture

ERA4CSClimate services

CLIMALERT provides climate information in a format that the forthcoming users find easy to understand and/or to incorporate into decisionmaking. CLIMALERT’s main goals are:
• Strengthening the link between climate research, water resources and agriculture
• Improving techniques and tools (mobile app, web-dynamic maps) to incorporate weather and climate information into the assessment of risks and decision-making in agriculture and water management practices
• Contributing to a global framework to improve the exchange of information on weather forecasts to help decision-makers in applying adaptation and mitigation strategies

Co-development of user-friendly tools(mobile app and web-dynamics maps) for proper risk management related to climate.
Development of guidelines and recommendation of good practicesto help decisionmakers in applying adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Encouragement of adaptive management strategies for water and agriculture, ameliorating the water use conflict, and delivering environmental and socio-economic benefits.

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The support of climate science is needed to better understand deviations from the longterm norm and to make use of climate information for agro-ecological zoning, sustainable land-use planning and management. CLIMALERT will lead to monetary benefits by contributing to reduce costs of facing extreme events, improve the efficiency of water allocation, reduce soil erosion, improve land management decision, reduce planning time and workload, and increase efficiency and productivity. Among nonmonetary benefits, CLIMALERT will contribute to improve water efficiency, biodiversity and ecosystem services and long-term benefits to human life and societal wellbeing.

Cláudia Pascoal

Professor of Ecology at CBMA /IB-S at the University of Minho, Portugal

My name is Cláudia Pascoal and I am Professor of Ecology at CBMA/IB-S at the University of Minho, Portugal. My research addresses the impacts of global change on biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in freshwaters. Currently, I am leading the CLIMALERT project aiming at co-developing innovative tools for climate services. I want to disentangle effects of multiple stressors related to climate change, while proposing adaptation and mitigation strategies with social and environmental benefits.

Project consortium

University of Minho
Catalan Institute for Water Research
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

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The project is being carried out by a multidisciplinary team with expertize in i) social and economic sciences (UFZ) to guarantee the sustained dialogue between users and providers throughout the co-production project; ii) climate sciences (IPMA and UFZ) to select climatic and hydrological indicators and models; iii) engineering (IB-S/UMinho) to co-develop tools and technologies that meet stakeholder demands; and iv) ecology (ICRA and CBMA/IB-S/ UMinho) to assess the environmental and the socio-economic benefits from the project.
The team is closely cooperating with relevant stakeholders during the co-production process. This is the case of water managers (e.g., AdP Águas de Portugal / AdN Águas do Norte, Catalan Water Agency) and farmers (e.g., The Portuguese Farmer Confederation (CAP), Portugal, SOGRAPE Vinhos Portugal).

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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.

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