Stakeholder meeting on water scarcity and droughts – Brussels, 27 April 2010 1 Monitoring droughts at the European scale: The European Drought Observatory Simone Rossi , Stefan Niemeyer European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Ispra (VA), Italy
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Stakeholder meeting on water scarcity and droughts – Brussels, 27 April 2010 1
Monitoring droughts at the European scale:The European Drought Observatory
Simone Rossi, Stefan NiemeyerEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre
Institute for Environment and SustainabilityIspra (VA), Italy
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Platform for drought detection and monitoring, forecasting, and information exchange
Commonly agreed products (e.g. drought indices)Joint comparison and analysis of information
Multi-scale approachContinental level MS level Regional level
Subsidiarity principleEuropean level information (+ platform) to be developed and managed at JRCNational datasets managed at MS levelRegional information processed by river basin / regional environmental authorities
A European Drought Observatory
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Subsidiarity principle within EDO
Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (MARM)Observatorio Nacional de la SequíaSistema Integrado de Información del Agua (SIA)e.g. drought indicator, actual ET, …
Joint Research CentreDrought Monitoring and ForecastingEDO drought indicators
p g y p ypp g y p yp
Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro SAIH Ebro, SITEbroEvolucción de la reserva hidraulica
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Contributions to the European Drought Observatory
The EDO Portal
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No single operational definition of drought works in all circumstances!
Different Definitions of Drought
from the National Drought Mitigation Center
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Different Drought indicators
A multidisciplinary set of indicators to constantly monitor the various environmental components potentially affected by droughts (soil, vegetation, etc.) in order to obtain a comprehensive and updated picture of the situation.
No single operational definition of drought
(Source : USGS)
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The EDO Portal
http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
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