KARE

Klimawandelanpassung auf regionaler Ebene
  • Website: https://klimaanpassung-oberland.de/
  • Contact person: Harald Kunstmann, Gamze Koç
  • Project duration: 3 years  (01.03.2024 – 28.02.2027)
  • Funding organization: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF

The joint project KARE focuses on the transdisciplinary development, testing and dissemination of new methods for the creation and provision of relevant information in order to deal with the heavy precipitation and extreme heat events. Additionally, it is aimed to quantify the influences of climate change on future flood events at the municipal level in the Oberland using the improved regional climate projections [1].

Together with regional stakeholders in Region Oberland, KARE develops practical knowledge on how local authorities can better plan for current and future heavy precipitation and extreme heat events. A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods and various modelling techniques are used for this purpose. KARE combines methods from the natural sciences, engineering and economics as well as methods from empirical social research.

As KIT partner of KARE II project, we are responsible for providing regionalised and locally refined climate information and cluster maps on hydrometeorological extremes (heavy rainfall and heat) on the basis of existing climate data and data from the cross-sectional project (NUKLEUS). Changes in the statistics of heavy precipitation and heat in the Oberland region are derived from the climate data using non-stationary extreme value analyses. These are crucial for improved hydraulic modelling and sponge city models. The aim of the information is to sensitise the population and the municipalities of the Oberland to the consequences of climate change, to provide data refined to the municipal level for climate impact analysis, to develop and test practical instruments for municipal heavy rainfall risk management together with stakeholders from politics, business and society and to provide concrete climate information products (heat and heavy rain climate maps) for the digital information platform.

 

 

[1] Laux, Patrick and Feldmann, David and Marra, Francesco and Feldmann, Hendrik and Kunstmann, Harald and Trachte, Katja and Peleg, Nadav, Future Precipitation Extremes and Urban Flood Risk Under +2°C and +3°C Warming: A Novel Non-Stationary Climate-Hydrodynamic Modeling Chain Using High-Resolution Radar Data and a Convection-Permitting Climate Model Ensemble. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5063863 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5063863