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MedGold

Web Editor — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:08:36 +0000

Climate change is causing new patterns in climatic conditions over the world, which are already affecting many aspects of our society.
Though being a global phenomenon, nowhere else in the world is climate change expected to have ecological, economic and social consequences as dramatic as those in the Mediterranean basin. Higher than-average projected changes in climate and shifting weather patterns endanger an extremely rich and intertwined biological diversity, which supports human activities such as farming. In this context, the agriculture sector in particular is especially threatened, as it is largely climate-driven and thus highly vulnerable to its variability.
The risk of crop failure and pest damage, as well as natural hazards such as heat waves, storms or floods, is likely to increase, requiring immediate action to be undertaken to adapt to this uncertain outlook.

The challenge is to develop tools to build more resilient, efficient and sustainable agriculture and food systems. To that end, the development of climate services to support decision-making and best practices in agriculture is essential.
That is why the aim of MED-GOLD is to translate state-of-the-art climate data and climate predictions — at the seasonal timescale and beyond — into easily accessible, valuable information for a wide range of end-users in the agriculture sector.

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Drought Observatory

Web Editor — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:29:26 +0000

Climate Services for the Mediterranean Basin Operational Services for decision makers, water management authorities and stakeholders.

WEBGIS, Monthly Bulletin – at present only available in Italian for Tuscany Region, and other services.

The complexity of the drought phenomenon requires the availability of a system as comprehensive and integrated as possible to respond to the different users’ requests.

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C3S Soil Erosion Italy

Web Editor — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:19:53 +0000

Soil erosion comes with a range of negative consequences, from reducing agricultural yield to damaging buildings. Using data and tools from the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS), the Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) has developed a dataset and two applications for investigating rainfall-induced soil erosion in Italy.

CMCC produced the ‘Soil erosion indicators for Italy from 1981 to 2080’ dataset by integrating CDS rainfall data with non-climate data to assess soil susceptibility to water erosion according to the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) approach. RUSLE is an empirical model of soil loss that accounts for soil susceptibility to erosion and rainfall erosivity.

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