Climate change impacts on water resources in the Mediterranean
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Climate change impacts on water resources in the Mediterranean Yves Tramblay 1 & Maria Carmen Llasat 2 & Christophe Randin 3 & Erika Coppola 4
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More than ever, there is a need to understand and predict the trajectory of the environment and human societies in the prism of climate and its evolution in one of the most history- and biodiversity-rich regions. Indeed, global warming is occurring at a greater pace in the Mediterranean region than in other parts of the world, inducing marked changes in temperatures and precipitation but also other climate variables (Lionello and Scarascia 2018). There is a strong need to assess the potential impacts of this climate change in different sectors such as agriculture, energy production, or water resources but also their possible societal repercussions. In particular, for countries located in the south and east of the Mediterranean basin, the potential impacts can be very strong (Cramer et al. 2018). In this context, the MISTRALS (Mediterranean Integrated Studies at Regional and Local Scales) initiative was launched in 2008 and ended in 20201. The MISTRALS program was devoted to the study of the Mediterranean basin and its environment, with the objective to better understand the impact of global changes in this region and to anticipate its evolution over a century. More than 1000 1 1MISTRALS was managed by CNRS-INSU and funded by ADEME (Agence de la transition écologique), CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement), CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer), IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement), Météo-France.
This article is part of the Topical Collection on Climate change impacts in the Mediterranean * Yves Tramblay [email protected] 1
HydroSciences Montpellier, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Department of Applied Physics, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
scientists participate in the different MISTRALS programs, from different countries around the Mediterranean and spanning a great variety of scientific domains including marine and terrestrial ecosystems, fishing, climate, geology, agriculture, freshwater availability, economics, and sociology. This Topical Collection includes contributions from an international conference held in Montpellier, France, in October 2017. The goal of this conference was to present recent results on climate change impacts in the Mediterranean region produced within the various MISTRALS programs and also to improve the interactions between climate modelers and the different scientific communities working on climate change impacts. The papers of this Topical Collectio
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