ECLISEA

European advances on CLImate services for coasts and SEAs

ERA4CSClimate services

ECLISEA is a project that aims to advance coastal and marine climate science and associated services through developing innovative research of sea surface dynamics.

A climate dataset of sea surface variables (waves and sea level) along the coastand European seas is processed and available.
A set of documents providing information and best practices related marine and coastal climate services. An example of the topics of the on-line documents are:the available climate datasets; the stakeholder’s need; a guide of downscaling methods for regional studies on the coast; the framework to assess climate change driven shoreline changes.
A prototype of a coastal climate service is been developed. The CCS will contain(i) a smart data model infrastructure, (ii) a European coastal climate atlas, and (iii) a decision support tool for coastal impacts.

About

What is the ECLISEA project about?

ECLISEA is a project that aims to advance coastal and marine climate science and associated services through developing innovative research of sea surface dynamics. The project is built upon the premise that the outcomes should be applicable throughout Europe. ECLISEA proposes an integral research plan that starts with assessing the needs of specific stakeholders; includes groundbreaking investigation related to mean sea level rise, storm surge, waves, total water level and coastal flooding and erosion methodologies, and ends up with the development of an on-line open prototype of a coastal climate service in Europe.

Schematic view of the marine variables that cause coastal flooding hazard (sea level components and wind-generated waves). On the top the key-points of the scope of the project are shown (first stakeholders’ consultation, then generation of climate data, impact assessment, and finally the development of a marine/coastal climate service prototype).

Highlights

A climate dataset of sea surface variables (waves and sea level) along the coast and European seas is processed and available.
A set of documents providing information and best practices related marine and coastal climate services. An example of the topics of the on-line documents are: the available climate datasets; the stakeholder’s need; a guide of downscaling methods for regional studies on the coast; the framework to assess climate change driven shoreline changes.
A prototype of a coastal climate service is been developed. The CCS will contain (i) a smart data model infrastructure, (ii) a European coastal climate atlas, and (iii) a decision support tool for coastal impacts.

Keywords / hashtags

Keywords: Coastal Climate hazard; Coastal impacts; Sea level rise; Water level climate changes; Waves.

Hashtags: #ECLISEAproject, #ERA4CS, #coastal

Potential societal impacts

We are developing climate information and related services tailored in coastal areas for multi-sector stakeholders (e.g. energy, tourism, navigation and insurance).

The research under ECLISEA umbrelLa will allow moving forward on climate predictability of sea level and waves.

A framework accounting for coastal uncertainties in assessing flooding and erosion impacts from European to local scales is being developed.

The role of JPI Climate

The JPI call made it possible to fund this project on marine and coastal climate sciences, a topic that requires more research to advance on related climate services. Additionally, JPI provides continuous support in different communication issues of the project and encourages the European collaboration within similar areas.

Melisa Menendez

Project Coordinator

My name is Melisa Menendez (menendezm@unican.es), project coordinator). My background is in marine sciences, engineering and statistics. I have been engaged for the last 15 years on the study of marine climate and related impacts to provide new information and services to coastal engineers and managers. Understanding and characterizing the extreme met-ocean events and the consequences of climate change on the ocean and coasts are interesting issues for me.

Project consortium

Institute of Environmental Hydraulics of Cantabria
NCSR Demokritos
French Geological Survey
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Five leading research performing organizations on marine and coastal science compounded ECLISEA project. They are from four European countries whose coasts presents multiple climatologies and socio-economic risks.

UC-IHC; Universidad de Cantabria (Environmental Hydraulics Institute & Santander Meteorology Group). Leader of the project. Main actions are on understanding and providing information of climate variations of marine variables (historical and under climate change scenarios) and the estimation of related impacts.

BRGM; Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières. BRGM role is based on impact models.

HZG, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (Centre for materials and coastal research). HZG main activities are focused on the collection of stakeholders needs and decadal prediction of storm surge.

CNRS; National Center for Scientific Research (Laboratoire d’etudes en geophysique et oceanographie spatiale). CNRS focuses research of historical and future behaviour of the mean sea level rise.

NCSRD; National centre for scientific research “DEMOKRITOS” (Institute of nuclear & radiological sciences & technology, energy & safety). NCSRD main activity is based on wave climate data and analysis on the Mediterranean Sea.

Documents

Report
Enhancing the value of climate data – translating risk and uncertainty and uncertainty utilizing a living labs approach

News & Events

Parent programme

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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