Transcript CEOP-AEGIS contribution to GEOSSS Water theme

Session 3 B Water, Agriculture, Ecosystems, Biodiversity
CEOP – AEGIS and Water – Climate Hot Spots
Massimo Menenti
Delft University of Technology
Jerome Colin
Université de Strasbourg
GEO European Project Workshop - London February 8 - 9
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Water Balance Model domain
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CEOP – AEGIS vs. EUGENE
• CEOP – AEGIS data products properly documented in Status Quo Report
Water with accurate linkages to GEO Tasks
• CEOP – AEGIS not mentioned in the European GEOSS Workshop on Water
• CEOP – AEGIS irrelevant to European contribution to GEO?
• Does information on GEO Tasks gets lost in the process?
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Climate Change Adaptation
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hydrological observations, analyses and predictions
mitigate the impacts of climate change
remove the underlying causes of vulnerability to climate change
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Short- and long-term hydrological variability and climate change
Resilience versus vulnerability of hydrologic systems
Resilience of hydrological systems to climate variability
Identifying and removing the causes of the vulnerability of hydrological
systems to climate change
– Reconstruction of adaptation mechanisms to hydrological variability in the
recent past
• Need to integrate very diverse data and models river-wise
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Water balance observations from space
• Gravity (GRACE)
• Radar altimetry (water level)
• Laser altimetry (water level, ice and snow)
• High resolution DSM (ALOS / PRISM)
• SAR interferometry
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Opportunities to join forces
CEOP-AEGIS (F, NL, D , E, IT): A protoype observation system for water resources in
South – East Asia: ground and space observations
SHARE – PAPRIKA (IT, F): Cryospheric responses to anthropogenic pressures in the

Hindu Kush – Karakoram – Himalaya regions:
impacts on water resources and availability.
THIRD POLE ENVIRONMENT (D, NL): water - ice - air - ecosystem - human
interactions
G-WADI (UNESCO): strengthen the capacity to manage the water resources of arid
and semi-arid areas around the globe
GEO European Project Workshop - London February 8 - 9
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Climate Change Will Affect the Asian
Water Towers
Immerzeel et al., 2010
The map shows the importance of melt water to downstream areas (pie charts) and
the number of people threatened in their food security due to reduction in upstream
flow due to climate change
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