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Multidecadal climate oscillations and climate scenarios for impact analysis on hydrological extremes in Belgium KU Leuven
Climate variability, climate change and the impact on hydrological extremes have been studied for Belgium. The analysis of the climate variability was based on a more than 100-year time series of 10-minute rainfall intensities at Uccle, Brussels. Also comparison was made with other hydro-climatic series of neighboring regions in Western Europe. Future climate change was studied based on a set of climate scenarios that were tailor-made for impact ...
Alien plant species favoured over congeneric natives under experimental climate warming in temperate Belgian climate Universiteit Antwerpen
Climate warming and biological invasions by alien species are two key factors threatening the worlds biodiversity. To date, their impact has largely been studied independently, and knowledge on whether climate warming will promote invasions relies strongly on bioclimatic models. We therefore set up a study to experimentally compare responses to warming in native and alien plant species. Ten congeneric species pairs were exposed to ambient and ...
Inter-model comparison of hydrological impacts of climate change on the Upper Blue Nile basin using ensemble of hydrological models and global climate models Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of future climate change on discharge and evapotranspiration of the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin using multiple global circulation models (GCMs) projections and multiple hydrological models (HMs). The uncertainties of projections originating from HMs, GCMs, and representative concentration pathways (RCPs) were also analyzed. This study is part of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison ...
Exploring the mismatch between development cooperation's climate adaptation tools and climate change management in local communities in the global south Universiteit Antwerpen
Man-made climate change is a super wicked problem of the twenty first century caused by historical emissions of excessive greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by Northern countries. However, current and future emissions will emanate from developing countries and emerging economies in the South. As such, Southern countries are increasingly engaged in mitigation and adaptation efforts as required by international agreements under the United ...
Towards Future-Proof Buildings in Belgium: Climate and Life Cycle Modelling for Low-Impact Climate Robust Office Buildings KU Leuven
There is a twofold interaction between our built environment and climate change. On the one hand, the building sector contributes to an important extent to the emission of greenhouse gases and, by extension, the total environmental impact. On the other hand, building performance is strongly influenced by climate change. This dissertation links climate and life cycle modelling and aims to develop a methodology to identify climate robust office ...
Independent Quality Assessment of Essential Climate Variables: Lessons learnt from the Copernicus Climate Change Service Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
If climate services are to lead to effective use of climate information in decision-making to enable the transition to a climate-smart, climate-ready world, then the question of trust in the products and services is of paramount importance. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has been actively grappling with how to build such trust: provision of demonstrably independent assessments of the quality of products, which was deemed an ...
Comparing climate change impacts on cereals based on CMIP3 and EU-ENSEMBLES climate scenarios KU Leuven
This study presents the simulated impact of climate change on cereal production for multi-model ensembles of global and regional climate models (GCMs and RCMs). The study aims are (i) to assess the sensitivity of impacts to the use of climate scenarios from specific ensembles of GCMs or RCMs, and (ii) to quantify the uncertainty in predicted impacts resulting from differences in climate models from a multi-model ensemble. The impact on cereal ...
COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
In the last decade, the Climate Limited-area Modeling Community (CLM-Community) has contributed to the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) with an extensive set of regional climate simulations. Using several versions of the COSMO-CLM-Community model, ERA-Interim reanalysis and eight global climate models from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) were dynamically downscaled with horizontal grid ...
Climate change impact assessment on pluvial flooding using a distribution-based bias correction of regional climate model simulations Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
The expected intensification of extreme precipitation events under climate change likely results in more frequent and intense pluvial floods worldwide. To study the climate change impact on urban pluvial flooding, fine-scale climate model simulations are needed. The number of such simulations is, however, still limited and not widely available, thus entailing the downscaling of the model outputs. One of the commonly used methods to meet this ...