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Description

HyMex seeks to make progress in the understanding of the Mediterranean climate to better prepare for environmental challenges such as extreme events and climate change impacts.
 
The HyMeX science objectives are devoted to:
  • improve the understanding of the water cycle, with emphasis on extreme events,
  • monitoring and modelling the Mediterranean atmosphere-land-ocean coupled system, its variability from the event to the seasonal and interannual scales, and its characteristics over one decade (2010-2020) in the context of global change,
  • assess the social and economic vulnerability to extreme events and adaptation capacity.

The multidisciplinary research and the database developed within HyMeX aim to contribute to:

  • improve observational and modelling systems, especially for coupled systems,
  • better predict extreme events,
  • simulate the long-term water-cycle more accurately,
  • provide guidelines for adaptation measures, especially in the context of global change.

Reference information

Websites:
https://www.hymex.org/?page=news
Source:
METEO France

Published in Climate-ADAPT Mar 24, 2020   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12, 2023

Date of creation:

2019

Keywords:
Mediterranean, climate modelling, water-cycle
Climate impacts:

Droughts, Extreme Temperatures, Flooding, Sea Level Rise

Adaptation Approaches:

Observations and Scenarios, Adaptation Plans and Strategies, Vulnerability Assessment, Climate services

Sectors:

Coastal areas, Disaster Risk Reduction, Marine and Fisheries, Water management

Geographic characterisation:

Europe

Macro-Transnational region:

Mediterranean (Euro-Med)

Biogeographical regions:

Mediterranean

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