Description: The Dead Sea region faces big water-related challenges. Among them are sea level decline, desertification, flash floods, ascending brines polluting freshwater, sinkhole development, and the repeated occurrence of earthquakes. Climate change and extensive exploitation of groundwater and surface water even aggravate the situation. These challenges can be only mastered in an interdisciplinary research effort involving all riparian countries. DESERVE is designed as a cross-disciplinary and cooperative international project of the Helmholtz Centers KIT, GFZ, and UFZ with well-established partners of the riparian countries. DESERVE is offering the unique opportunity to integrate the scientific results already achieved or presently elaborated in the Dead Sea region into a joint scientific approach based on earth, water, and environmental sciences. DESERVE is aimed at studying coupled atmospheric, hydrological, and lithospheric processes, such as sinkholes, flash floods, and earthquakes. This interdisciplinary research approach will contribute to a sound scientific understanding of the ongoing processes. Furthermore, it enables the development of prediction models, remediation strategies, and risk assessments with respect to environmental risk, water availability, and climate change. Within DESERVE, the research of IMK-TRO focuses on the operation of a long-term meteorological monitoring network in combination with intensive special observation periods, and numerical modelling to: - estimate Dead Sea evaporation which among others contributes to the Dead Sea water budget, impacts precipitation, and governs the intensity of Dead Sea haze; - quantify and characterize atmospheric aerosols, as well as regional and local wind systems applying LIDAR and radar systems; - simulate regional weather with COSMO and COSMO-ART to improve the process representation of evaporation, haze, and precipitation formation; - investigate the impact of global warming and regional land use change on the water budget components with high resolution regional climate simulations (COSMO-CLM); - perform seismic measurements to study if and to what extent the movement of the ground can be traced back to meteorological parameters, and thus to wind systems and atmospheric pressure variations.
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Origins: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Sturzflut ? Meteorologischer Parameter ? Atmosphärisches Aerosol ? Lidar ? Meerwasser ? Messstellennetz ? Radar ? Wind ? Totes Meer ? Landnutzungsänderung ? Süßwasser ? Verdunstung ? Verfahrenskombination ? Wasserbilanz ? Desertifikation ? Oberflächenwasser ? Globale Erwärmung ? Salzgehalt ? Wasserverfügbarkeit ? Erdbeben ? Risikoanalyse ? Studie ? Umweltgefährdung ? Klimamodell ? Dunst ? Wirkungsforschung ? Meeresspiegel ? Gewässergrund ? Grundwasser ? Modellierung ? Oberflächengewässer ? Prognosemodell ? Interdisziplinarität ? Klimawandel ? Trübung ? Lithosphäre ? Wasserhaushalt ? Wetter ? Forschungseinrichtung ? Abwasser ? Verunreinigung ? Hydrologie ? Niederschlag ? Risikobewertung ? Anliegerstaat ? Naturgefahren und Naturrisiken ? Kontinuierliches Verfahren ?
Region: Baden-Württemberg
Bounding boxes: 9° .. 9° x 48.5° .. 48.5°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2012-01-01 - 2017-12-31
Webseite zum Förderprojekt
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