ACQWA-Project

The ACQWA Project (Assessing Climate impacts on the Quantity and quality of WAter) was a large-scale integrating project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. It involved 35 international partners and a budget of EURO 6.5 million.
Within this project HWRM-ETH investigated the future of water resources in alpine regions around the world (the Swiss and Italian Alps, the central Andes of Chile and the Tian Shan in Kirgistan). The main objectives of the Chair within this project were:

• modelling the response of river runoff dynamics to changes in the local climate system
• modelling the response of glaciers to changes in the climate system through state of the art integrated models of glacier ablation and accumulation, glacier dynamics and glacier runoff
• looking at the distributed and fine resolution response of catchment hydrology to climate change
• investigating downscaling techniques of RCMs
• modeling slope stability in mountainous landscapes under the influence of climate change

The following persons were involved in this project:

• Prof. Dr. Paolo Burlando (PI and WP coordinator)
• Dr. Francesca Pellicciotti (research associate, glacier modelling), now at WSL
• Dr. Simone Fatichi (research associate, hydrological modeling)
• GrigoriosAnagnostopoulos (PhD student, modelling slope stability)
• RogerBordoy Molina (PhD student, downscaling of RCMs)
• MarcoCarenzo (PhD student, glacier modelling)

More information about the ACQWA project can be found on the external page EU webpageof the ACQWA project.