Forest fire and impact on water supplies

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Following the major forest fire in Västmanland in 2014, the Formas research council carried out a strategic initiative to investigate various aspects of the impact of a forest fire. SMHI and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) have conducted measurements of water supply and water Last updated:

Application to workshop on sea level rise, November 7-8 2019

Welcome to express your interest in participating at Workshop on Sea Level Rise; IPCC SROCC Science and Planning for Climate Adaptation, November 7-8 2019, Vildmarkshotellet, Kolmården, Sweden. Please register your application here before 2019-10-06.  The conference fee is 2 500 SEK (including VAT Last updated:

Applikation workshop on Sea Level Rise, November 7-8 2019

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Regional Initiative for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region (RICCAR)

The RICCAR project objectives RICCAR aims to assess the impact of climate change on freshwater resources in the Arab Region through a consultative and integrated regional initiative that seeks to identify the socio-economic and environmental vulnerability caused by climate change impacts on water Last updated:

Climate Change & Greening of Water Financing in Kenya

, livestock, wildlife and tourism, especially in the arid and semi-arid land areas. This, in combination with the existing limited capacity to integrate climate change consequences into the country’s water sector financing and implementation framework inspired the choice of project topic. The work builds on Last updated:

SMHI develops European operational climate service for the water sector

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information into a number of climate impact indicators, we reduce the gap between research and data on the one hand and between water resource managers and decision-makers on the other. It becomes easier and cheaper to include climate impact in the planning, and this can provide major benefits to society when Last updated:

A coupled ice-ocean model supporting winter navigation in the Baltic Sea. Part 1. Ice dynamics and water levels.

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/93. In general, the results were most promising, but further work is needed, particularly the inclusion of thermodynamics to the model, a closer coupling between the ice-ocean model and the HIRLAM model, and the development of an automatic method for the generation of initial data to the model. Key words Last updated:

Climate studies of clouds, radiation and atmospheric water vapour - Climate Monitoring SAF (CM SAF)

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from the AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) instrument onboard polar orbiting satellites and from the SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager) instrument on the geostationary satellites. The following cloud parameters are covered Total cloud amount or cloud fractional cover Last updated:

Climate impact on water reservoirs to be studied in a new project

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resources they provide to our society. Increased sediment can lead to losses in hydropower production or availability of water for drinking or irrigation," says Alena Bartosova, research leader at the hydrological research unit at SMHI. – We will integrate our hydrologic and sediment models with energy Last updated: