Improving ClimAte Resilience of crItical Assets (ICARIA)

Within ICARIA (www.icaria-project.eu), a EU funded project focusing on assessing compound risks for critical assets, high resolution climate projections based on the general circulation model (GCM) output of CMIP6 were performed.

To assess the local impacts of different possible future conditions, the coarse global climate models were downscaled using a statistical and dynamical approach for the Case studies of the project (Salzburg Region, Barcelona Metropolitan Area and South Aegean Region). The first downscaling was done for 10 GCMs and four shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs), the latter with two GCMs, two regional climate models and two SSPs. Applying both state-of-the art methods allows comprehensive and tailored risk assessments related to different climate hazards (floods, heatwaves, wind storms, storm surges, forest fires) for a large set of future scenarios and different time horizons. All data is freely available here.

The consortium, comprising 16 partners across 6 EU countries, includes a multidisciplinary team involving technology centers, universities, private companies, and regional authorities.