Disseminating the WATCH knowledge

The focus of the WATCH Project is basic scientific research and addresses the issues of the Global Water Cycle and how this relates to climate change. The dissemination activities of WATCH are described in the Plan for using and disseminating the knowledge. Many activities and deliverables have been and will be published on this website, such as:

WATCH Meetings

  • WATCH, together with HighNoon, had organised an Open Science Seminar: Future of Water Resources in India under a Changing Climate, India on May 13 and 14, 2009 
  • Project meeting to finalize research plan for the Glomma basin, Oslo, Norway, 4-8 February 2008.
  • Project meeting to finalize research plan for the Upper-Elbe and Nitra basins, Prague, Czech Republic, 20-21 February 2008.
  • Field visit Metuje and Sázava sub-basins, Czech Republic, 20-21 February 2008.
  • Project meeting to finalize research plan for the Upper-Guadiana basin, Ciudad Real, Spain, 10-11 March 2008.
  • Field visit Upper-Guadiana basin, Spain, 12-14 March 2008 (click on picture gallery).
  • Field visit and project meeting, study basin Glomma, Røros, September 15-18 2008 (click on picture gallery).
  • WATCH General Assembly, Bratislava, Slovakia, 3-7 November 2008 (click on picture gallery).
  • Project administrative meeting WB4, Oslo, Norway, 11-14 January 2009.

Teaching and WATCH Courses

  • WATCH International Summer School on Climate Change and the Water Cycle, Trieste, Italy, 1-8 June 2008.
  • WATCH International Summer School on Hydrological Drought and Global Change, Trieste, Italy, 22-27 June 2008 (click on picture gallery).
  • Intensive International Training Program on Disaster Prevention and Reduction with emphasis on floods and droughts, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-27 June 2008.
  • International Summer School on Coping with Climate Change in Integrated Water Management, Rolduc, the Netherlands, 30 June-9 July 2008.

Past activities: Non-WATCH Conferences & Workshops (WATCH has been referred to)
Period: 2 years (February 1, 2008 – January 31, 2009)

Past activities

Type

Type of audience

Countries addressed

Size of audience

Partner involved

4-6 Febr. 2008

Mini-Workshop on regional climate modelling of EU projects CLAVIER and CECILIA, Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest
Presentation WATCH and WorkBlock4 by Stefan Hagemann 

Scientific

EU

~60

 MPI-M

26-28 Febr. 2008

UNESCO, Workshop on Trends in low flows and droughts in small undisturbed rivers across Europe, Paris, France 

Scientific community 

International  

~10

UiO, NVE, WUR, NERC-CEH

6-7 March 2008

COST733 WG4 Workshop, Brussels, Belgium 

COST733 members, scientific community 

International 

~20 

UiO, NERC-NERC-CEH

March 2008 

Conference on Modelling floods and droughts - uncertainty estimates for water resources management, Prague, Czech Republic 

UNESCO EURO-FRIEND workshop

International 

~30 

TGM-WRI

13-18 April 2008 EGU General Assembly in Vienna Scientific International   8685 MPI-M

14-17 April 2008

Conference Water down under 2008, Adelaide, Australia  

Scientific community
higher education 

International 

~250 

WUR

14-18 April 2008

Conference: EGU, Vienna, Austria 

Scientific community
higher education 

International  

~500 

UiO, UC

22-24 April 2008

WATCH world water balance intercomparison workshop, Wageningen

Scientific

International

  35

 All GHM
partners
5 May 2008 IGBP meeting in Cape Town
http://www.igbp.net/page.php?pid=143		 Scientific
community		 International >100 CEH, WUR,
LMD, OBSPARIS

6 May 2008 

EC-FP7 XEROCHORE kickoff meeting, Brussels, Belgium 

Scientific community

International  

~20

WUR, UiO, NERC-CEH

9-10 May 2008

COST 733 6th Management Committee meeting and WG4 meeting, Ioannina, Greece 

COST733 scientific community 

International 

~30 

UiO, NERC-CEH

19-23 May 2008 

International conference on Ecohydrological processes and sustainable floodplain management: opportunities and concepts for water hazard mitigation, and ecological and socioeconomic sustainability in the face of global changes, Lodz, Poland

Scientific community 

International 

~100 

PAS

23-24 May 2008 

Workshop on Hydrology of a small catchment 2008, Prague, Czech Republic

Scientific community 

International (Central European)

~30 

UC

28-30 May 2008 

Workshop on European Water Archive, Koblenz, Germany 

UNESCO EURO-FRIEND workshop  

International  

~20 

WUR, NVE, NERC-CEH

30 May 2008 

Meeting of COST C22 on Urban flood management, Warsaw, Poland 

Scientific community 

International 

~40 

PAS

1-8 June 2008 

Summer school on Climate change and the hydrological cycle

Under-graduate students 

International 

  40 

ICTP, WUR, NERC- CEH, MPI

2-4 June 2008

24th Conference of the Danubian Countries on Hydrological forecasting and hydrological bases of the water management, IHP UNESCO, Bled, Slovenia.

Scientific
and water
management
community

International
(Danubian
countries)

~80

UC
2-8 June 2008 WATCH Summer School for high school
pupils, Duino		 Educational International   40 ICTP, CEH,
WUR, MPI-M

8 June 2008

Press conference at the closer of Summer school on Climate change and the hydrological cycle

Local authorities and research institute directors 

Italian and EU 

  40

ICTP, WUR,
NERC-CEH, MPI

2-4 June 2008

24th Conference of the Danubian Countries on Hydrological forecasting and hydrological bases of the water management, IHP UNESCO, Bled, Slovenia

Scientific and water management community

International (Danubian countries)

~80 

UC

22-27 June 2008 

WATCH Summer School, Trieste Italy, document

 Scientific
community		 International   50 ICTP, CEH,
WUR, UiO,
MPI

22-27 June 2008 

Summer school on Hydrological drought and global change

PhD students and young postdocs  

International 

~30 

resp WUR, UiO and  ICTP, cont NVE, NERC-CEH, TGM-WRI

25-27 June 2008

LoCo/WATCH workshop at KNMI, the Netherlands

 Scientific International   30 CEH, MPI-M

June 2008

Second annual NUFU meeting, Gabarone, Botswana

Scientific community

 Botswana, Malawi, Norway

UiO

June 2008 GLASS Workshop Scientific
community		 EU   25 NERC-CEH,
UKMO, VUA
3-4 July 2008 Workshop: Joint Crop Modelling in LPJmL and IMAGE, Potsdam Scientific
community		 International ~25 PIK

20-23 July 2008 

Water and climate session, EXPO 2008, Zaragoza, Spain 

Scientific community and general audience 

International 

~80 

PAS

July 2008

EU-South African Collaboration in Climate- Water Science (Bordeaux, France)

 Scientific,
policy, endusers		 International  >100 NERC-CEH

8 Sept 2008

Impact of climate change on water cycle: global trends and challenges at the European Water Research Day at Expo Zaragoza, Spain

 Policy
makers and
scientific		 International >100 NERC-CEH

8-9 Sept 2008 

UNESCO workshop on Adapting to the impacts of global changes on river basins and aquifer systems, Paris, France 

UN officials, science community 

International 

 ~25 

UiO

17-20 Sept 2008 CTWF workshop in Kunming Scientific Asia   100 ICTP, MPI-M

18-20 Sept 2008 

ERB international conference on Hydrological extremes in small basins, Cracow, Poland

Scientific community

International 

~100 

PAS

September 2008

 Key note address at IWA World Water
Congress		 Scientific,
and other		 International >100 WUR

September 2008

 GWSP- steering group meeting Scientific,
policy		 International >100 NERC-CEH

12-16 Oct 2008 

Joint meeting of Russian Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences, days of Polish science in Russia, Moscow, Russia 

Scientific community

Bi-national (Polish and Russian)

~100 

PAS

22-24 Oct. 2008 

COST733 Mid-term conference on Advances in weather and circulation types classifications and applications, Cracow, Poland

Scientific community
higher education 

International 

~100

NERC-CEH, UiO

3-7 Nov 2008 WATCH General Assembly meeting
(Bratislava)		 Scientific EU / Australia   80 All

10-12 Nov. 2008

UNESCO EURO-FRIEND. workshop on Low flow and drought, Bratislava, Slovakia  

Scientific community
higher education 

International 

~40 

UC (resp.)
NERC-CEH, UiO, WUR

12-14 Nov 2008 Workshop zur Großskaligen Modellierung,
Salzau		 Scientific Germany,
Austria, Switzerland		   50 MPI-M, UF,
PIK, CESR

24-26 Nov 2008 

 Workshop on Water and climate change, Beijing, China Scientific community
higher education		 International 

~30 

NERC-CEH (resp.), WUR

 2008

Holmes TRH, RAM De Jeu, M Owe, and AJ
Dolman. Land Surface Temperatures from Ka-Band (37 GHz) Passive Microwave Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2008JD010257

 Scientific community

International 

 unknown VUA
 2008

Loew A, TRH Holmes, and RAM De Jeu. The European heat wave 2003: early indicators from multisensoral microwave remote sensing?, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2008JD010533, In Press

Scientific community

International 

unknown

VUA

 2008

Parinussa RM, RAM De Jeu, TRH Holmes,
and JP Walker, Comparison of Microwave and Infrared Land Surface Temperature Products over the NAFE’06 Research Sites, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5, 783-787, doi 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2005738

Scientific community

International 

unknown

VUA

 2008

Scipal K, TRH Holmes, RAM De Jeu, V
Naeimi and WW Wagner, A Possible Solution for the Problem of Estimating the Error Structure of Global Soil Moisture Datasets, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24403, doi:10.1029/2008GL035599

Scientific community

International 

unknown

VUA

 2008

Dynamical downscaling of climate change
projection over the African region using the regional Climate Model (RegCM3). Poster at AGU. Mariotti et al.

Scientific community

International 

unknown

ICTP

 2008

GEWEX newsletter on WATCH-GLASS
workshop on Feedbacks

Scientific community

International 

unknown

CEH


Non-WATCH Conferences & Workshops

At the COST733 WG4 Workshop in March, studies applying Weather Type Classifications (WTCs) to different purposes including air quality, hydrology, climatological mapping, forest fires, climate change and variability and risks and hazards were presented. On the basis of the presentations possible evaluation methods to compare the applicability of different WTCs were discussed, and similarities and differences as well as advantages and disadvantages of various WTCs were compared.

The purpose of the UNESCO workshop in September, was for UNESCO to be informed about the latest developments and research questions concerning water and climate change. Their interest was twofold, on the one hand to strengthen their basis to prepare a contribution to the World Water Forum 2009, on the other hand to review their programmes in light of current scientific issues.

At the COST733 Mid-term conference in November "Advances in weather and circulation types classifications and applications"various sessions on the theory and development of weather type classification (WTC) methods as well as on the COST733 WTC database and various WTC applications were hold, including contributions from WATCH partners.