FAQ

What does co-development of PUNI methods mean?
  • PUNI stands for Providing and Utilizing eNsemble Information
  • CO-MICC provides useful and useable information for climate change (CC) risk assessment and adaptation to CC
  • Ensemble information: Output of an ensemble of global hydrological models (GHMs): hazard = potential future change of hydrological variables/indicators due to CC, with spatial resolution of 0.5°
  • Uncertainty quantification
Who develops the PUNI methods?
  • knowledge translators and disseminators = “CC-risk experts/boundary organizations“ (upper level, main users of the portal) e.g.: Experts in ministries of the states (water resources, agriculture), meteorological services (climate change departments)
  • research centres (universities and national research centres)
  • those who need to assess CC risks and adapt (lower level, stakeholders/end-users who get advice from A and may use the portal with info’s for non-experts) e.g.: farmers, water users (cities), industries
Which regions are addressed within CO-MICC?
  • From local to global: CO-MICC delivers data on a spatial scale of 0.5° and analyzes basins larger than 20000 km²
  • Local scale: The Ebro catchment in Spain
  • Regional (transboundary) scale: the MAT region (Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia) with a focus on the following basins: Moulouya (Morocco-Algeria), Chelif (Algeria), Medjerda (Algeria-Tunisia)
  • Global scale
How does CO-MICC address risk assessment?
Illustration of the core concepts of the WGII AR5. Risk of climate-related impacts results from the interaction of climate-related hazards (including hazardous events and trends) with the vulnerability and exposure of human and natural systems. Changes in both the climate system (left) and socioeconomic processes including adaptation and mitigation (right) are drivers of hazards, exposure, and vulnerability. At the top of the figure, risk management approaches that are suitable for water management are indicated. Freshwater-related risks can be addressed by an iterative risk-management approach (“adaptive water management”) that is based on risk assessment. They can be reduced by climate change (CC) mitigation, i.e. reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, by adaptation to climate change and by reducing vulnerability and exposure to hazards.
Illustration of the core concepts of the WGII AR5. Risk of climate-related impacts results from the interaction of climate-related hazards (including hazardous events and trends) with the vulnerability and exposure of human and natural systems. Changes in both the climate system (left) and socioeconomic processes including adaptation and mitigation (right) are drivers of hazards, exposure, and vulnerability. At the top of the figure, risk management approaches that are suitable for water management are indicated. Freshwater-related risks can be addressed by an iterative risk-management approach (“adaptive water management”) that is based on risk assessment. They can be reduced by climate change (CC) mitigation, i.e. reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, by adaptation to climate change and by reducing vulnerability and exposure to hazards.
Which kind of data will be addressed?
Only model data from ensemble simulations of large-scale hydrological models, compatible with the ISIMIP protocol (https://www.isimip.org/).