{"id":406,"date":"2014-12-18T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T09:23:59","slug":"new-eu-project-rain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/research-projects\/new-eu-project-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"RAIN Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIN_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIN_logo-300x111.png\" alt=\"RAIN_logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIN_logo-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIN_logo-1024x380.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIN_logo-500x185.png 500w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIN_logo.png 1111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since May 2014, ESSL is engaged in the EU-project RAIN.\u00a0ESSL leads\u00a0Work Package 2, <em>Hazard Identification<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Within the work package, the following results were obtained<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Review of past events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A review of past cases of severe weather impacting European Critical Infrastructure was performed. The results have been presented at a workshop in Berlin and in the following project report:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIND22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">RAIN report D2.2: Past Cases of Extreme Weather Impact on Critical Infrastructure in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Assess present warning systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An assessment was made of the\u00a0present state of risk monitoring and warning systems in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIND23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">RAIN report D2.3: Present state of risk monitoring and warning systems in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESSL&#8217;s Alois Holzer has given\u00a0an\u00a0interview to\u00a0Michael Allen (from YOURIS) with Alois M. Holzer (ESSL) regarding the current assessment of warning systems in Europe, which you can listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/20151215-Full-version-of-the-interview-with-Alois.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Future changes of hazard occurrence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project partners\u00a0Finnish Meteorological\u00a0Institute, Technical University Delft and Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin\u00a0jointly with ESSL created\u00a0projections of the impact of climate change\u00a0on hydrometeoroloigcal hazards relevant to Critical Infrastructure. The projections used, among other sources,\u00a0simulations form the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro-cordex.net\">EuroCordex experiment<\/a>, that were kindly provided by modelling groups across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The full report (subject to review by the European Commission) can be downloaded here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAIND25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">RAIN report D2.5: Present and future probability of meteorological and hydrological hazards in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The raw data (RAIN D2.4) \u00a0can be downloaded from\u00a0the 4TU repository here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/data.4tu.nl\/repository\/collection:ab70dbf9-ac4f-40a7-9859-9552d38fdccd\">https:\/\/data.4tu.nl\/repository\/collection:ab70dbf9-ac4f-40a7-9859-9552d38fdccd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RAIN\u00a0Project website can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rain-project.eu\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0example is given below for the\u00a0occurrence of covnective windstorms:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/windstorm_risk_projection_RAIN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/windstorm_risk_projection_RAIN.png\" alt=\"windstorm_risk_projection_RAIN\" width=\"539\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/windstorm_risk_projection_RAIN.png 539w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/windstorm_risk_projection_RAIN-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since May 2014, ESSL is engaged in the EU-project RAIN.\u00a0ESSL leads\u00a0Work Package 2, Hazard Identification. 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