Climate Alert Smart System for Sustainable Water and Agriculture (CLIMALERT)

The CLIMALERT project emerges to provide climate information in a format that prospective users find it easy to understand and/or incorporate into decision-making.

The main goals are:

• to strengthen the link between climate research, water resources, and agriculture to assist in the management of natural resources, enhance agricultural livelihoods and reduce underlying causes of vulnerability;
• to improve the techniques and tools currently used to incorporate weather and climate information into the assessment of risks and decision making in agriculture management practices;
• to contribute to a global framework to improve the transfer and exchange of information on weather forecasts together with near-real satellite time observations to help decision makers in applying adaptation and mitigation strategies.

A multidisciplinary team with experts in climate science, engineering, social and economical sciences, and ecology closely cooperates with relevant stakeholders to co-develop innovative tools (software and Apps) to alert quickly for proper risk management and to predict and mitigate impacts due to extreme climate events.

Three case studies in different macroclimatic areas are implemented to face drought and floods under a set of anthropogenic pressures to validate the integrated and transferable transnational alert system:

1. Spain: Algars River basin (Ebro River basin)
2. Portugal: Cávado River basin
3. Germany (Saxonia Anhalts): Saale catchment.