ADO

Alpine Drought Observatory

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ADO


According to the Alpine Convention, water scarcity and related conflicts are becoming a worrying topic in Alpine regions. Moreover, lowland regions far beyond the Alps suffer from missing water from the Alps. Thus, countries are invited to act on this topic with common strategies. Building on findings from previously funded projects (e.g. AlpWaterScarce), our aim is to set up an Alpine Drought Observatory (ADO) and to derive recommendations for improved risk preparedness and efficiency of drought management, specifically, for the Alpine territory. The ADO itself will be a transnational Alpine-wide operational system with a web-interface (e.g. WebGIS, periodic reports) to access data and specific impact-oriented indices for monitoring droughts and their impacts. It will provide optimized observations and forecasts for mountainous areas, which could be integrated in existing EU-level monitoring systems (e.g. European Drought Observatory). Monitoring will be based on a fusion of existing approaches (e.g. meteorological drought indices, hydrological drought indices), and newly available information (e.g. remote sensing of snow and soil moisture), to create new combined drought indices and a common drought classification. The ADO will be applied in six case studies in all alpine countries with local partners. The case studies represent different drought issues such as agricultural drought, hydrological drought or drought impact on ecosystems. Out of the case studies, guidelines for an improved drought risk management will be developed. Findings will be upscaled to recommendations for drought governance policies for the Alps. Main beneficiaries of project findings are institutions with decision-making capacities in the field of water management, energy production, and agriculture. Many of them are directly involved in the project as partners, observers, or stakeholders.

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Publications
The Alpine Drought Observatory: An Alpine wide Operational Drought Monitoring Platform
Zellner PJ, Cattani L, Bertoldi G, Greifeneder F, Alasawedah MH, Iacopino T, Vianello A, Balogun R, Claus M, Ventura B, Mayer K, Vlahovic Z, Jacob A (2023)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: VAO Symposium | Grainau | 21.3.2023 - 23.3.2023

More information: https://schneefernerhaus.de/fileadmin/user_files/Umweltminis ...

The Alpine Drought Observatory, how to organize and share data in a cross-national mountain region following the fair data principles
Zellner PJ, Balogun R, Iacopino T, Cattani L, Alasawedah M, Claus M, Ventura B, Vianello A, Bertoldi G, Jacob A (2023)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: EuroGeo Workshop 2023 | Bolzano | 2.10.2023 - 4.10.2023

More information: https://www.geomountains.org/news/events/details/2023-10-02/ ...

openEO use cases at Eurac, the Alpine Drought Observatory and SAR2CUBE
Jacob A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: EODC Forum 2022 | Vienna | 15.6.2022 - 15.6.2022

More information: https://events.eodc.eu/event/7/timetable/?view=standard

The Alpine Drought Observatory INTERREG project
Bertoldi G (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Remtech Expo 2022 | Ferrara | 22.9.2022 - 22.9.2022

Machine learning for discharge prediction in the Alps
Mazzolini M, Greifeneder F, Bertoldi G, Quintero D, Callegari M, Haslinger K, Seyerl G (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: EGU General Assembly 2022 | Vienna | 22.5.2022 - 27.5.2022

More information: https://www.egu22.eu/

The Alpine Drought Observatory Web Portal Design and Data Access Strategies
Jacob A, Zellner PJ, Cattani L, Iacopino T, Greifeneder F, Ventura B, Quintero D, Vianello A, Bertoldi G, Mayer K, Seyerl G (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Network of Drought Observatories in the EU Worskhop | Ispra | 16.6.2022 - 17.6.2022

Climate change and water resources in the Alps: which future is waiting for us?
Bertoldi G (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Speck&Tech Event #44 | Trento | 30.6.2022 - 30.6.2022

More information: https://www.slideshare.net/speckandtech/climate-change-and-w ...

An agricultural vulnerability assessment to droughts in the Alps: exploring indicators’ contributions at regional level
Cocuccioni S, Stephan R, Terzi S, Erfurt M, Stahl K, Zebisch M (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: EGU General Assembly 2022 | Vienna | 23.5.2022 - 27.5.2022

More information: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-11185.ht ...

Drought in Northern Italy: Long Earth Observation Time Series Reveal Snow Line Elevation to Be Several Hundred Meters Above Long-Term Average in 2022
Koehler J, Dietz AJ, Zellner P, Baumhoer CA, Dirscherl M, Cattani L, Vlahović Ž, Alasawedah MH, Mayer K, Haslinger K, Bertoldi G, Jacob A, Kuenzer C (2022)
MDPI AG
Journal article
Remote Sensing

More information: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14236091

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14236091

Vegetation Health Index - 231 m 8 days
Zellner PJ, Castelli M (2022)
Database

More information: https://edp-portal.eurac.edu/discovery/161b3496-534a-11ec-b7 ...

https://doi.org/10.48784/161b3496-534a-11ec-b78a-02000a08f41d

Alpine Drought Observatory
Iacopino T, Zellner PJ, Jacob A, Cattani L, Greifeneder F, Alasawedah MH, Vianello A, Balogun RO (2022)
Website

More information: https://ado.eurac.edu/

The Alpine Drought Observatory Platform: An alpine wide CI/CD Pipeline in Action: From operational data production to web based visualization.
Zellner PJ, Cattani L, Iacopino T, Claus M, Alasawedah M, Quintero D, Ventura B, Vianello A, Vlahovic Z, Mayer K, Jacob A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: SFSCon 2022 - South Tyrol Free Software Conference | Bolzano | 11.11.2022 - 12.11.2022

More information: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/the-alpine-drought-observatory-p ...

The ADO Portal: An Open Science and Open Data Approach to Drought Monitoring in the European Alps
Jacob A, Zellner P, Iacopino T, Claus M, Alasawedah M, Quintero D, Ventura B, Vianello A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: International Mountain Conference IMC#22 | Innsbruck | 11.9.2022 - 15.9.2022

More information: https://www.imc2025.info/sessions/id85-alpine-drought-monito ...

Potential of Satellite-derived long-term Snow Cover Dynamics for Alpine Drought Monitoring
Köhler J, Dietz A, Jacob A, Bertoldi G, Marin C, Zellner PJ, Alasawedah MH, Haslinger K, Mayer K (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: International Mountain Conference IMC#22 | Innsbruck | 11.9.2022 - 15.9.2022

More information: https://elib.dlr.de/188574/

Cambiamento globale nelle regioni di montagna e gli effetti sugli ecosistemi alpini
Bertoldi G (2021)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Seminars Cycle “Il territorio della montagna| fragilità e sviluppo sostenibile” | Online- Milano : 9.1.2021 - 9.1.2021

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18828

Hydrological data collection for the Alpine Drought Observatory
Bertoldi G, Quintero G, Mazzolini M, Ventura B, Greifeneder F (2021)
Presentation/Speech

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/20308

The Alpine Drought Observatory Project ADO WP T1/T2: Monitoraggio meteorologico e idrologico della siccità raccolta e armonizzazione dei dati
Bertoldi G (2021)
Presentation/Speech

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/20324

Evapotranspiration Changes over the European Alps: Consistency of Trends and Their Drivers between the MOD16 and SSEBop Algorithms
Castelli M (2021)
MDPI AG
Journal article
Remote Sensing

More information: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13214316

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214316

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/21391

Streamflow Reconstructions Using Tree-Ring Based Paleo Proxies for the Upper Adige River Basin (Italy)
Formetta G, Tootle G, Bertoldi G (2021)
Journal article
Hydrology

More information: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/9/1/8/htm

https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9010008

Agricultural Drought Detection with MODIS Based Vegetation Health Indices in Southeast Germany
Kloos S, Yuan Y, Castelli M, Menzel A (2021)
Journal article
Remote Sensing

More information: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13193907

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13193907

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/18793

A Remote-sensing Perspective on Evapotranspiration Trends in the Alps
Castelli M (2020)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: AGU fall meeting 2020 | Online everywhere | 1.12.2021 - 17.12.2021

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