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Climate change impact assessment in central and eastern Europe: The<br />

CLAVIER project<br />

Susanne Pfeifer (1) , Daniela Jacob (1) , Gabor Balint (2) , Dan Balteanu (3) , Andreas Gobiet (4) , Andras<br />

Horanyi (5) , Laurent Li (6) , Franz Prettenthaler (8) , Tamas Palvolgyi (7) and Gabriella Szepszo (5)<br />

(1) Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Hamburg, Germany (susanne.pfeifer@zmaw.de)<br />

(2)<br />

Environmental Protection and Water Management Research Institute (VITUKI), Budapest, Hungary<br />

(3)<br />

Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania<br />

(4)<br />

Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria<br />

(5)<br />

Hungarian Meteorological Service (HMS), Budapest, Hungary<br />

(6)<br />

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France<br />

(7)<br />

Env-in-Cent Ltd. (EiC), Budapest, Hungary<br />

(8) Institute of Technology and Regional Policy, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria<br />

1. The CLAVIER project<br />

The CLAVIER project (Climate Change and Variability:<br />

Impact on Central and Eastern Europe) is supported by the<br />

European Commission's 6th Framework Programme as a 3<br />

year Specific Targeted Research Project from 2006 to 2009<br />

under the Thematic Sub-Priority "Global Change and<br />

Ecosystems". The CLAVIER consortium consists of 13<br />

partners from 6 countries, most of them coming from the<br />

CLAVIER target countries Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.<br />

Based on a set of climate change simulations from different<br />

regional climate models, linkages between climate change<br />

and its impact on weather patterns, air pollution, extreme<br />

events, and on water resources are investigated.<br />

Furthermore, an evaluation of the economic impact on<br />

agriculture, tourism, energy supply and the public sector is<br />

conducted.<br />

Figure 1 shows the case study regions for economic impact<br />

assessment which have been defined based on the expert<br />

knowledge of the local CLAVIER partners.<br />

figure 1: CLAVIER study regions for impact assessment.<br />

Green: hydrology, yellow: tourism, grey: energy, cyan:<br />

agriculture.<br />

2. The CLAVIER model ensemble<br />

The CLAVIER model ensemble consists of three regional<br />

climate models, namely REMO from the Max Planck<br />

Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, used in<br />

Version 5.7 by MPI-M and REMO5.0 used by the<br />

Hungarian Meteorological Service in Budapest, and the<br />

LMDZ model developed at CNRS in Paris. From all models,<br />

A1B scenario simulations driven by the global climate<br />

model ECHAM5 are available for the period of 1950 to<br />

2050 with a horizontal resolution of about 25 to 30 km. For<br />

LMDZ, additional simulations driven by the IPSL global<br />

model are available for the A1B scenario.<br />

3. Interface climate simulations – impact<br />

studies<br />

One main challenge of conducting climate change impact<br />

assessment is the multidisciplinary knowledge which is<br />

needed. CLAVIER joins disciplines such as climate<br />

modelers, hydrologists, geographers, engineers and<br />

economists. To facilitate the communication and the data<br />

flow, an interfacing work package has been established<br />

which bridges the gap between the model simulation data<br />

and the needed input data for the impact studies. Among<br />

others, this work package is carrying out a bias correction<br />

procedure to account for the known biases of the regional<br />

climate models.<br />

4. Physical Impact Assessment<br />

The impact of climate change on different sectors has been<br />

studied. Among others, analyzes have been and will be<br />

carried out on: the water levels of the Lake Balaton, the<br />

hydrological regime of the Tisza river basin, possible<br />

changes in weather extremes, landslide and mud flow risks<br />

in the Sub-Carpathian regions, the risk of road damages in<br />

Hungary, and possible changes in typical weather regimes<br />

for Central and Eastern Europe and their implications to<br />

air pollution levels.<br />

5. Economic Impact Assessment<br />

The economic impact assessment concentrates on the four<br />

economic sectors with the highest expected impacts,<br />

agriculture, tourism, energy supply and the public sector.<br />

Based on the climate change information and on economic<br />

data for the respective sector (e.g. temperatures,<br />

precipitation from the climate simulations, sectoral<br />

economic data e.g. on tourism revenues, overnight stays,<br />

number and types of hotels, tourism infrastructure,<br />

restaurants, shops, beaches etc. for the tourism studies),<br />

the sensitivity and the exposure to a changing climate is<br />

assessed in 10 case study regions on the NUTS II and<br />

NUTS III level and finally translated into expected<br />

changes in regional macroeconomic indicators, such as the<br />

sectoral Climate Change impact on Gross Regional<br />

Product (GRP) allowing also for first estimates on the<br />

impact on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the national<br />

level respectively.<br />

This workshop contribution will give an overview on the<br />

results of the CLAVIER project.<br />

References<br />

http://www.clavier-eu.org

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