Programme: ESA – European Space Agency (Climate Adaptation, Extremes, Multi-Hazards and Geo-Hazards Science)
Project title: Disentangling the teleconnections leading to compound eXtreme HEAT in Europe
Acronym: ESA-XHEAT
Duration: 01/07/2024-31/06/2026
Project budget: € 500.000,00
ISMAR budget: € 150.000,00
Web site: n.a.
Summary:
XHEAT will research whether climate modes and prolonged extreme sea surface temperature (SST) events detected over the North Atlantic-Mediterranean basin are leading to more frequent warm and dry summer conditions, as observed via land surface temperature (LST) and soil moisture (SM) in continental Europe, complemented by ancillary climate data (from Copernicus Climate Service, C3S). To this effect, XHEAT will advance the scientific understanding of the air- sea interactions during interconnected or compound MHWs and CDHWs events, promote the uptake of EO-based added-value products for the detection and analysis of temperature extremes over land and sea, and validate its performance in disclosing MHWs and CDHWs-dependent sectoral impacts (e.g., agriculture, forestry management, ecosystems’ health) over Northern Europe (North Sea), Western Europe (Bay of Biscay and Iberian Coast) and Southern Europe and North Africa (Mediterranean Sea).
Contact person in ISMAR: chunxue.yang@cnr.it
Partnership:
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Norway)
- +ATLANTIC -Association for an Atlantic Collaborative Laboratory (Portugal)
- CNR-ISMAR (Italy)
