4D reconstruction of the Mediterranean water cycle
Role: PI
REF: ESA Contract No. ESA n. 4000136272/21/IEF
Period: 2021 – 2024 (24 months)
Keywords: water cycle, droughts, floods, landslides
Partners:
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica (CNR-IRPI)
- University of Ghent (UG)
- TU Wien (TUW)
- ESTELLUS
- EURAC
- Fondazione CIMA
- HSM
- OBSEBRE
- PLANET
Total Budget: 999k€
Internal budget: 220 k€
Description: 4DMED-Hydrology aims at developing an advanced, high-resolution, and consistent reconstruction of the Mediterranean terrestrial water cycle by using the latest developments of Earth Observation (EO) data as those derived from the ESA-Copernicus missions. In particular, by exploiting previous ESA initiatives, 4DMED-Hydrology intends:
- to demonstrate how this EO capacity can help to describe the interactions between complex hydrological processes and anthropogenic pressure (often difficult to model) in synergy with model-based approaches;
- to exploit synergies among EO data to maximize the retrieval of information of the different water cycle components (i.e., precipitation, soil moisture, evaporation, runoff, river discharge) to provide an accurate representation of our environment and advanced fit-for-purpose decision support systems in a changing climate for a more resilient society.
Website: https://www.4dmed-hydrology.org/
