ECLAT-2 was an EU funded Concerted Action Initiative (CAI) which started in July 1998 and ran for three years. The CAI had two specific objectives:
1) To improve the understanding and application of results from climate model experiments in EU climate change impacts research projects.
2) To keep EU researchers into the impacts of climate change abreast of developments in climate modelling and informed about the availability of results from new climate change experiments performed in Europe and worldwide.
These two objectives were achieved primarily through a series of four workshops that were initiated, designed and run by the ECLAT-2 Steering Committee in association with climate impacts researchers throughout Europe. Each of these workshops involved between 20 and 40 participants drawn from the main European climate modelling centres and from the European climate change impacts research community. An ECLAT-2 website was established and the four workshop reports were published and widely distributed within Europe and beyond.
Third ECLAT-2 Workshop
Climate scenarios for water-related and coastal impactsThe third workshop in the series was held at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, Netherlands, 10-12 May 2000. Organiser: Jules Beersma, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), beersma(at)knmi.nl
This workshop reviewed the construction and application of climate change scenarios in areas related to water and coastal indicators. Specific topics included the specification and incorporation of daily and sub-daily weather extremes in climate change scenarios, the use of weather generators and statistical downscaling techniques, and the interaction between sea-level change, storms and storm surges.
Download the PDF version of the workshop report (144pp., 6 mb)
More information can be found on the ECLAT-2 Homepage
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