Facts and Figures: A single-country use case, not connected to a particular event, demonstrating an operational system for drought and heatwaves.
The COMPASS approach: We will showcase an operational service of climate and impact attribution. We will use Copernicus as a basis of meteorological data to calculate selected compound hazards and well-developed exposure/vulnerability models to compute impacts. The main task activities include: (a) preparation of interface to identify and query Copernicus (Climate Change Service, Emergency Management Service, Land Monitoring Service) and other EU-enabled datasets (ERA5, EMO-1 meteorological observations, Eurostat) – providing a machine-readable service for querying datasets; (b) Integration of climate data-processing, and exposure and vulnerability toolboxes; (c) defining the architecture supporting the Operational Case Study Toolbox facility implementation, specifically in terms of complexity of tools, data requirements and user guides; (d) producing real time calculations for all stages of operation workflow that identifies extreme events in recent meteorological data and calculates expected societal impacts of the event with and without climate or socioeconomic change.
Duration (in days) of the heatwave of 21st of June 2023, based on the Heat and Cold Wave Index (HCWI). The
yellow to purple colour scheme represent increasing duration
Date: 21/06/2023
Credit: JRC Global Drought Observatory (GDO) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service
(CEMS) GDO/EDO, Drought in Europe June 2023 – GDO Analytical Report
View on the San River in Poland affected by drought in 2022
Date: 30/08/2022
Credit: Mirosław Piela
COMPASS aims to develop a harmonised, yet flexible, methodological framework for climate and impact attribution of various complex extremes that includes compound, sequences and cascading hazard events
The COMPASS project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101135481
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