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 was investigating 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 HWRM 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)
- Grigorios Anagnostopoulos (modeling slope stability)
- Roger Bordoy Molina (downscaling of RCMs)
- Marco Carenzo (glacier modeling)
- Dr.FrancescaPellicciotti (glacier modeling), now at WSL
- Dr. Simone Fatichi (hydrological modeling)
More information about the ACQWA project can be found on the external pageofficial homepage of the ACQWA project
Project reports (deliverables)
Deliverable D.S.2.1: Methodological framework for stochastic downscaling of space-time precipitation and temperature (PDF, 3.8 MB)
Deliverable D.S.2.2: Climate change scenarios from high-resolution downscaling methods (PDF, 7.6 MB)
Deliverable D.S.4.2: Coupling of the biosphere model LPJ-GUESS with the hydrological model TOPKAPI (PDF, 3.0 MB)
Deliverable D.S.5.2: Hxdrological modelling of slope stability (PDF, 11.1 MB)
Deliverable D.S.7.2: Assessment of the effects of transient climate change on basin hydrology at basin and local scales for the Rhone river basin (PDF, 4.9 MB)
Deliverable D.S.7.5: Assessment of the effects of transient climate change on basin hydrology at basin and local scales for the Aconcagua river basin (PDF, 2.0 MB)
Deliverable D.S.8.1: Continuous distributed mass-balance (accumulation and melt) model of a glacier (PDF, 31.7 MB)
Deliverable D.S.8.2: Coupling of continuous mass-balance and morphology evolution glacier models (PDF, 8.2 MB)
Deliverable D.S.8.3: Response of alpine glaciers to future climate (PDF, 78.6 MB)
Deliverable D.S.8.6: Response of Dry Andes glaciers to future climate (PDF, 15.8 MB)