Projects
SWALDRIC – Severe weather over the Alpine-Adriatic region in a changing climate
| Project webpage | https://www.pmf.unizg.hr/geof/znanost/meteorologija/swaldric |
| Title | SWALDRIC – Severe weather over the Alpine-Adriatic region in a changing climate |
| Abstract | The SWALDRIC project will investigate severe weather events over Europe, with a specific focus on the Alpine and Adriatic region. The main goals of the project are to better understand severe weather events, to evaluate their representation in weather and climate models, and to investigate their response to climate change. Key elements of the project are: the exploitation of a unique Croatian hail-pad data set, the exploration and intercomparison of a wide range of different atmospheric (weather and climate) modeling systems, and the use of kilometer-scale pan-European decade-long simulations. |
| Main project goals | The main objective of the project is to better understand severe weather events, evaluation of their representation in weather and climate models and investigation of their response to climate change.
Specific goals of the project are:
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| Key words | Hail, lightening, climatology, climate change, severe weather, numerical simulations, climate projections, Croatia, Switzerland |
| Contact person for DHMZ | dr. sc. Ivan Güttler
dr. sc. Kristian Horvath, dr.sc. Petra Mikuš Jurković, dr.sc. Nataša Strelec Mahović |
| Duration | 3/2019 - 11/2022 |
| Partner institutions | Geophysics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service Croatia control Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss |
| Financing agencies | Croatian Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation |