Alpine Drought Observatory

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

Date of latest update: 2024-03-20

Description

Description (EN):

According to the Alpine Convention, water scarcity and related conflicts are becoming a worrying topic in Alpine regions. Moreover, lowland regions far beyond the Alps suffer from missing water from the Alps. Thus, countries are invited to act on this topic with common strategies. Building on findings from previously funded projects (e.g. AlpWaterScarce), our aim is to set up an Alpine Drought Observatory (ADO) and to derive recommendations for improved risk preparedness and efficiency of drought management, specifically, for the Alpine territory. The ADO itself will be a transnational Alpine-wide operational system with a web-interface (e.g. WebGIS, periodic reports) to access data and specific impact-oriented indices for monitoring droughts and their impacts. It will provide optimized observations and forecasts for mountainous areas, which could be integrated in existing EU-level monitoring systems (e.g. European Drought Observatory). Monitoring will be based on a fusion of existing approaches (e.g. meteorological drought indices, hydrological drought indices), and newly available information (e.g. remote sensing of snow and soil moisture), to create new combined drought indices and a common drought classification. The ADO will be applied in six case studies in all alpine countries with local partners. The case studies represent different drought issues such as agricultural drought, hydrological drought or drought impact on ecosystems. Out of the case studies, guidelines for an improved drought risk management will be developed. Findings will be upscaled to recommendations for drought governance policies for the Alps. Main beneficiaries of project findings are institutions with decision-making capacities in the field of water management, energy production, and agriculture. Many of them are directly involved in the project as partners, observers, or stakeholders. The total budget of the project will be €1.9M.

Achievements (EN):

Report on the assessment of user requirements for the ADO: The ADO project aims to create an online platform for drought monitoring and forecasting with specific indicators for the Alpine Space region. The purpose of this report is to assess user requirements related to the ADO platform. The user requirements come from stakeholders who are either directly involved in the project as observers or who are part of a target group that are considered in the communication strategy. Furthermore, the user requirements were also drawn from the case studies described in WP T5.2 and from the reports of the first national workshop held in the partner countries. Report on the collection of drought impacts relevant for the Alpine region: The EDII Alps V1.0 database: Drought may affect a range of environmental and socio-economic sectors. Assessing a region’s risk to drought requires knowledge about the type of adverse impacts that have occurred as a consequence of drought in the past. In order to improve the knowledge about potential sectors at risk in the Alpine Space region, the ADO project’s aims include the collection, collation and analysis of drought impact records. This report documents the newly assembled EDII-Alps delivered by the ADO project’s work package T3. This report-based drought impact inventory was built specifically for the region on the basis of the classification system of the EDII (European Drought Impact report Inventory). For the purpose of creating an up-to-date drought impact record for the region, information was gathered and transcribed from national databases and reports. Besides the most prominent impact category ‘agriculture and livestock farming’, many impact reports also relate to ‘public water supply’, ‘forestry’, ‘aquatic ecosystems’. The report describes the data collection and provides an overview of the Version 1.0 contents of the new database, which contains more than 3200 impact entries. The data will be used for the analysis of drought vulnerability and risk in the next project phases. The ADO Platform: Droughts are becoming an increasing concern in the Alps and in the lowland areas that receive Alpine water. The Alpine Drought Observatory (ADO) provides a tool for a quick and easy overview of the current drought situation in the Alpine region and past drought situations in the last 12-48 month. ADO is integrating data from climate models, satellite data observations and ground station data from all Alpine countries as well as historical entries. The data is harmonized with all Alpine countries and continuously updated daily or every two weeks depending on the observation index. All data is offered on open access under the CC-BY 4.0 license. ADO provides the following data for the entire alpine space on political and hydrological relevant boundaries: Meteorological indicators such as SPI (precipitation), SPEI (evaporation), and SSPI (snow conditions). Satellite based vegetation indicators VHI , VCI. Hydrological data from monitoring stations Along most rivers in the Alps. Historical database on drought impacts from scientific articles and media reports. Vulnerability analysis and relevant data for its assessment.

Website: http://www.alpine-space.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Level of integration of the ecosystem services approach in the policy systems of the Alpine Space

Expected Outputs (EN):

The Alpine Drought Observatory (ADO) will level the monitoring capabilities between different Alpine regions, which will enable a more complete and more homogenous picture of the current and forecasted drought status, for the coherent assessment of the impacts of drought for the entire Alpine region, involving 6 countries and 11 institutions. Beyond that, the ADO will improve tools for drought management, available to decision makers in the Alpine Space region (e.g. an evaluation to recommend indices to different sectors, e.g. freshwater supply, agriculture, forestry, energy production, aquatic ecosystems, etc.).

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Evaluation systems and results

Specific Objective: Enhance the protection, the conservation and the ecological connectivity of Alpine Space ecosystems

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06d) Protecting and restoring biodiversity and soil and promoting ecosystem services, including through Natura 2000, and green infrastructure

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano

Department: Institute for Earth Observation, EOEM unit (Earth Observation for Environmental Monitoring)

Address: Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.eurac.edu

Total budget: EUR 456 379.00

ERDF budget: EUR 387 922.15

Zavod iskriva, iskrišče za razvoj lokalnih potencialov

Name: Zavod iskriva, iskrišče za razvoj lokalnih potencialov

Department: Institute for Development of Local Potentials

Address: Reteče 215, 4220 Škofja Loka, Slovenia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.iskriva.net/

Total budget: EUR 110 166.00

ERDF budget: EUR 93 641.10

Regione Piemonte – Direzione Generale Ambiente

Name: Regione Piemonte – Direzione Generale Ambiente

Department: Water Protection Department

Address: Via Principe Amedeo, 17, 10123 Torino, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.regione.piemonte.it/ambiente/

Total budget: EUR 162 999.00

ERDF budget: EUR 138 549.15

ANBI – Associazione Nazionale Consorzi Gestione Tutela Territorio ed Acque Irrigue

Name: ANBI – Associazione Nazionale Consorzi Gestione Tutela Territorio ed Acque Irrigue

Department: ANBI PIEMONTE

Address: Via Negroni 7, 28100 Novara, Italy

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.anbi.it

Total budget: EUR 98 787.35

ERDF budget: EUR 83 969.25

Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL

Name: Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL

Department: Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements

Address: Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.wsl.ch

Total budget: EUR 201 108.75

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Name: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Department: Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources/Chair of Environmental Hydrological Systems

Address: Friedrichstraße 39, 79098 Freiburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uni-freiburg.de/

Total budget: EUR 240 642.40

ERDF budget: EUR 204 546.04

Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement

Name: Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement

Department: INRAE Grenoble regional centre, Laboratory Ecosystems and Society in Mountains Research Unit (LESSEM)

Address: rue de la papeterie BP76 2, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères, France

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.inrae.fr/

Total budget: EUR 142 605.00

ERDF budget: EUR 121 214.25

Kmetijsko gozdarska zbornica Slovenije – Kmetijsko gozdarski zavod Maribor

Name: Kmetijsko gozdarska zbornica Slovenije – Kmetijsko gozdarski zavod Maribor

Department: Institute of Agriculture and Forestry Maribor

Address: Vinarska ulica 14, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kmetijski-zavod.si

Total budget: EUR 103 112.00

ERDF budget: EUR 87 645.20

Amt der Oberösterreichischen Landesregierung - Wasserwirtschaft Planung

Name: Amt der Oberösterreichischen Landesregierung - Wasserwirtschaft Planung

Department: Department of Water Management

Address: Kärntnerstraße 12, 4021 Linz, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at

Total budget: EUR 112 027.80

ERDF budget: EUR 95 223.63

Agencija Republike Slovenije za okolje

Name: Agencija Republike Slovenije za okolje

Department: Meteorological and Hydrology Office, Climate and Water Cycle Analysis Division, Agrometeorological Analysis Section

Address: Vojkova cesta 1b, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.arso.gov.si/

Total budget: EUR 177 123.35

ERDF budget: EUR 150 554.85

Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik

Name: Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik

Department: Climate Research Department

Address: Hohe Warte 38, 1190 Wien, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.zamg.ac.at

Total budget: EUR 156 974.00

ERDF budget: EUR 133 427.90

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Summary

Project name (EN): Alpine Drought Observatory

Project acronym: ADO

Project start date: 2019-10-01

Project end date: 2022-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 961 924.65

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 496 693.52

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 496 693.52.

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Alpine drought observatory

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/ado/

Publication date: 2023-08-01

Document date: 2021-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Alpine drought observatory

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/ado/

Publication date: 2023-08-01

Document date: 2022-06-22

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

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2023-08-11

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64 / 64 (100%)

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752 / 752 (100%)

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