What is the state of water in the Mediterranean?
Natural disasters causing more death victims and economic losses worldwide are those related to water, such as droughts, floods or storms. Mediterranean areas have been identified as one of the climate change hotspots. In this context, the Mediterranean is a priority for the research and comprehension of the water cycle (atmosphere-land-oceans) in this area, with special focus on hydrometeorological extremes and its related social and economic vulnerability.
Natural disasters causing more death victims and economic losses worldwide are those related to water, such as droughts, floods or storms. Mediterranean areas have been identified as one of the climate change hotspots. In this context, the Mediterranean is a priority for the research and comprehension of the water cycle (atmosphere-land-oceans) in this area, with special focus on hydrometeorological extremes and its related social and economic vulnerability.
From the 4th to the 7th of July, more than 150 experts on water cycle in the Mediterranian will gather in the 10th Hymex Workshop at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. The meeting will be coordinated by the program HyMeZ (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment) which aims to improve the understanding of the water cycle and its related processes in the Mediterranean, and is organized by the Faculty of Physics and the Water Research Institute of the UB. The organizing committee is led by M. del Carme Llasat, from the Department of Applied Physics at the Faculty of Physics, and Javier Martín-Vide, director of the Water Research Institute of the UB.
The main objective of the workshop is to create an interdisciplinary forum to present and debate on the current state of knowledge on the water cycle in the Mediterranean, from a pluridisciplinary and multi-scale approach, as well as to promote new research lines and applications in the context of the HyMeX community. With more than 170 lectures, the covered topics will touch on heavy precipitations, flash-floods, impact and vulnerability, droughts and water resources.
There will also be contributions on the progresses in the prediction and management of the water cycle and its connection with renewable energies, as well as cyclonic storms or the ocean-atmosphere relation. During the workshop, people will share the progresses in different scientific work groups and define future lines of observation campaigns and experiments through specific meetings.