Assessing variations of extreme indices inducing weather-hazards on critical infrastructures over Europe—the INTACT framework

A. Reder (), M. Iturbide, S. Herrera, G. Rianna, P. Mercogliano and J. M. Gutiérrez
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A. Reder: CMCC Foundation, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, REMHI division
M. Iturbide: IFCA (CSIC-University of Cantabria)
S. Herrera: Univ. Cantabria
G. Rianna: CMCC Foundation, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, REMHI division
P. Mercogliano: CMCC Foundation, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, REMHI division
J. M. Gutiérrez: IFCA (CSIC-University of Cantabria)

Climatic Change, 2018, vol. 148, issue 1, No 9, 123-138

Abstract: Abstract Extreme weather events are projected to be more frequent and severe across the globe because of global warming. This poses challenging problems for critical infrastructures, which could be dramatically affected (or disrupted), and may require adaptation plans to the changing climate conditions. The INTACT FP7-European project evaluated the resilience and vulnerability of critical infrastructures to extreme weather events in a climate change scenario. To identify changes in the hazard induced by climate change, appropriate extreme weather indicators (EWIs), as proxies of the main atmospheric features triggering events with high impact on the infrastructures, were defined for a number of case studies and different approaches were analyzed to obtain local climate projections. We considered the influence of weighting and bias correction schemes on the delta approach followed to obtain the resulting projections, considering data from the Euro-CORDEX ensemble of regional future climate scenarios over Europe. The aim is to provide practitioners, decision-makers, and administrators with appropriate methods to obtain actionable and plausible results on local/regional future climate scenarios. Our results show a small sensitivity to the weighting approach and a large sensitivity to bias correcting the future projections.

Date: 2018
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