idmp cee 2nd workshop: 4 quarter report by prg
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Quarterly Report No. 1
4th Quarter of 2013
Peer Review Group
Janusz Kindler
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Sándor Szalai
Szent István University, Hungary
Henny A.J. van Lanen
European Drought Centre, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Robert Stefanski
World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
The plan of presentation
Introduction
Assessment procedure
General observations
Snapshot detailed comments
Recommendations
Since the PRG report was distributed before the workshop, our
comments and observations will now be very short – let’s spent
this hour mostly as the beginning of discussion how to eliminate
the current problems and improve the further implementation of
the Programme
Questions to PRG? How can we contribute better to your efforts?
Assessment procedure
No permanent PRG Chair - each quarter another member of PRG
takes a Lead
Janusz Kindler agreed as a Lead for the 4th quarter of 2013
The Lead produces the first draft of the review report, which is
distributed to the other PRG three members for comments,
corrections and additional observations
After several e-mail iterations, the final text agreed by all PRG
members is produced and submitted to the Programme Manager
General observations
We are impressed by the comprehensive outcome of the
activities - in particular when we consider that the Programme
started in the course of 2013
Review is based on milestone reports (total about 500 pages), not
on deliverables, but a good stepping stone towards them
Some of the milestone reports do not agree with the activity lists
... they must be updated
General observations
Integration of national contributions is often missing – it will be
of fundamental importance in the final outputs
In the future a more concerted action of all partners is needed,
i.e. more work needs to be done jointly by all partners
Integration of IDM CEE information system in the EC-JRC
European Drought Observatory (EDO) is a good idea, but
- principles and operational details must be soon agreed with
the national data suppliers
- Flexibility EDO to address specific regional requirements
General observations
Some milestone reports are broad, but still miss the connection
with IDMP, specific for the region
Coordination across scientific content activities is unclear
The reporting quality of some milestone reports is not adequate
and should be improved
Activity lists and reports
IDMP has a smaller budget, than the EU-Framework
Programmes (FP7, Horizon2020). Anyway, the main tasks are in
the Activity lists, accepted by the National Chairs of CWP and
the participants
You can revise your Activity list, but you have to negotiate with
the Scientific Coordinator to modify it/them. It is not accepted
to change the topics of the Activity lists unilaterally
Activity reports
PRG has the documents: Activity lists and Milestone reports
only. The evaluation of the reports is based on the Activity list.
A report can be very good, very useful, but if it has to suit the
Activity list
The reports have a very substantial volume. Most probably, the
synthetizing reports could serve additional benefit for the
region, but they are quite often missing
Recommendations
Drought Risk Management: Leading Concept?
monitoring drought hazard
(forecasting hazard)
current and (forecasted) impacts (probabilistic)
potential measures/actions to reduce impacts, to
build resilience, reduce vulnerabilities and risk (stakeholder dialogue, hydrological modeling, impact modeling, exploration
risk management strategies)
Recommendations
Drought Risk Management: Leading Concept?
monitoring drought hazard
(forecasting hazard)
current (and forecasted) impacts (probabilistic)
potential measures/actions to reduce impacts, to
build resilience, reduce vulnerabilities and risk (stakeholder dialogue, hydrological modeling, impact modeling, exploration
risk management strategies)
Ongoing
drought
Future
drought
Recommendations
Drought Risk Management: embedding of DSS
monitoring drought hazard
(forecasting hazard)
current (and forecasted) impacts (probabilistic)
potential measures/actions to reduce impacts, to
build resilience, reduce vulnerabilities and risk (stakeholder dialogue, hydrological modeling, impact modeling, exploration
risk management strategies)
Recommendations
Literature research: Demonstration Projects (WP5)
- existing knowledge
(demonstration)
- identifying gaps (targeted
experiments, demonstration)
Recommendations
Stakeholders: agriculture & forestry
Other stakes (future)?
- navigation
- energy
- water resources
- health
- tourism
- ecosystem services
Recommendations Terminology
Differences
- drought
- aridity
- water scarcity
Drought types
- meteorological
- soil water
- hydrological
Use accepted Glossary (e.g. EC, WMO, UNESCO, IPCC, UN-ISDR, IAHS)
Recommendations
Drought indicators
Common suite of indicators
- awareness indicators
- operational indicators
Recommendations CEE Information System: integration in European Drought
Observatory
Check long-term risk
Recommendations
Activity design / Reporting
- Harmonization (e.g. climate information)
- Milestone Reports consistent with Activity List
- Formulate added value from existing knowledge for
IDMP CEE
- Develop common format for training courses
- Milestone Reports preferably ≤ 30 p. (excl. annexes)
- Clear requests to contributing partners (templates);
synthesize national inputs / reports
Recommendations Cooperation and Dissemination
International Cooperation:
- European Drought Centre
- EURO FRIEND-Water Low Flow and Drought
project / group
Transboundary dissemination (examples):
- EGU, various sessions, Vienna, 27 April – 1 May 2014
- FRIEND-Water 2014 Conf., Montpellier, 7-10 October 2014
- Leonardo HYPER Drought Conf., Prague, November 2014
- International Drought Conference, Valencia, 10-13 March 2015.
Recommendations
- Agricultural practices (incl. increase
WHC)
- Forest ecosystems
- Natural small water retention measures
- Drought Information System
- Decision support system
- GIS Based Communication Technology
Platform
- Remote sensing agricultural drought
monitoring
- Upgrading agricultural drought
monitoring and forecasting
- International Cooperation
- DM Plans, RBMPs ≈ EU-WFD
- Guidelines for DM Plans
- Capacity building
Concerted actions / synthesis