As part of the BMBF project WASCAL WRAP2.0 LANDSURF, we have published a dataset with a large number of agricultural relevant indices for Africa. These include indices of temperature, heat, drought, and precipitation as well as various crop-specific indices of water availability for 12 different crops.
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As part of the course "klima.fit - Climate change on your doorstep! What can I do?" at the adult education centre Volkshochschule Würzburg & Umgebung e.V. Dr Luzia Keupp from our working group gave an insight on 14 May 2024 on
the expected effects of climate change in the Würzburg region.
moreWe have a new publication in Theoretical and Applied Climatology: Rai et al. (2024) are the first who investigated how different temperature- and precipitation-based climate indices will change under the influence of climate change by using data from CORDEX-CORE instead of the older CORDEX-CAS-44 data or solely a single simulation.
moreWe have published a new study on the cooling effect of urban trees and green spaces in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning (Rahman et al. 2024).
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We were represented with three contributions at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU24) this year.
more![Klimatologe Heiko Paeth forscht zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Unterfranken. Ende Januar wird er aktuelle Erkenntnisse dazu bei einem öffentlichen Vortrag vorstellen. (Bild: Pressestelle/JMU) Klimatologe Heiko Paeth forscht zu den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Unterfranken. Ende Januar wird er aktuelle Erkenntnisse dazu bei einem öffentlichen Vortrag vorstellen. (Bild: Pressestelle/JMU)](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/3/csm_20240130_einBlick_KlimaforscherSpricht_53c04b90d0.jpg)
Wie drastisch sind die Folgen des Klimawandels für unsere Region? Was können wir noch dagegen tun? Diese Fragen beantwortet der renommierte Klimaexperte Heiko Paeth am 30. Januar bei einem Vortrag an der Uni Würzburg.
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In January, the 14th meeting of the Arbeitskreis Permafrost (D-A-CH Permafrost Conference) took place with 42 participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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As part of the last GGW event in 2023, the GGWprize for dissertation of the year 2023 was awarded to Dr. Luzia Keupp.
moreWCRP Open Science Conference 2023
10/23/2023We contributed two posters to the WCRP Open Science Conference held in Kigali, Rwanda, and online. There, we presented the development of agricultural indices in Africa under different emission scenarios (Abel et al. 2023a).
morePublication in Weather and Climate Extreme
10/18/2023We have published a new paper entitled "Projected changes in rainfall amount and distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Evidence from an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations" in the journal Weather and Climate Extremes.
moreAt the end of the exhibition "Water Change" in the Weltladen Würzburg, Dr. Daniel Abel was invited as a speaker to present the change in water availability as a consequence of climate change. The talk entitled "Water change - global, regional and local perspective" highlighted the occurrence of droughts and heavy precipitation in the past and - assuming different greenhouse gas scenarios - in the future.
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09/29/2023We have published a new paper entitled "Climate change information tailored to agriculture and forestry in Central Europe, exemplified on the region of Lower Franconia" (Paeth et al. 2023) in the journal Climatic Change. In the paper, various indicators relevant to agriculture and forestry were investigated, such as the occurrence of late frosts, heat days, dry periods and heavy precipitation.
morePublication in Ecology and Evolution
09/28/2023In the journal Ecology and Evolution, we addressed the question of how to determine the spatial distribution of insects based on bioclimatic variables in a Mediterranean region extended to the north.
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09/27/2023In the WASCAL WRAP2.0 project LANDSURF we published the paper "Robustness of climate indices relevant for agriculture in Africa deduced from GCMs and RCMs against reanalysis and gridded observations" (Abel et al. 2023) in the journal Climate Dynamics. The question of how well climate models are able to reproduce agricultural indices goes hand in hand with a number of preconditions such as the adequate simulation of the rainy season.
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We were represented with a wide range of contributions at the International Conference on Regional Climate with a Focus on Regional Climate Models (ICRC-CORDEX) in Trieste, Italy. The posters covered a broad spectrum from the first-ever coupling of a multi-layered soil with interactive vegetation in the regional model REMO (Abel et al. 2023), to the representation of heat and drought in observational and model data over Africa (Ziegler et al. 2023) and temperature- and precipitation-related extreme events in Central Asia (Rai et al. 2023), respectively, to the user-oriented provision of climate information and indices for agriculture in West Africa exemplified for Burkina Faso (Weber et al. 2023).
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