Heavy Precipitation Archives - Climate Innovation Window

Heavy Precipitation Droughts Sea level rise

Off-Grid Clean Water for Irrigation and Water Storage

We address two water issues: treatment and storage. Using compact robotic reverse osmosis (RO) for water treatment and a fast-installation, mass-volume water storage s...

Coastal areas Agriculture Water management

Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods River floods

Methodological update and computer application in the estimation of flood risk flows in the Canary Islands

The innovation focuses on adapting the SHEE computer application to enhance flood prediction accuracy. SHEE manages regional databases and simulates hydrometeorologica...

VirtualSense: and augmented sensor for accurate soil moisture measurements

The innovation in precision agriculture involves a system that remotely measures Volumetric Water Content (VWC) using low-cost IoT and AI technologies. It optimizes ir...

Multi-hazards Droughts Heavy Precipitation

Agricultural Risk Information System (ARIS)

ARIS is conceived as an online GIS tool to consult precision weather and climate information tailored to the needs of the agricultural sector. The system will be desig...

Broad stakeholder engagement through interactive flood modelling with the 3Di LiveSite

We developed both methods and workshop set-ups for stakeholder engagement, and the technical tools that can support these engagement efforts. In our view, these two ar...

Flood Force

We will provide an innovative inter-generational project, which aims to increase knowledge, capability and effectiveness in preparing for and responding to flooding in...

Services

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation Sea level rise

Climate Change Ready – An Augmented Reality Mobile App

We have developed an engaging Augmented Reality enabled app, which will involve stakeholders in climate change challenges and lead them to action through education.

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

FRESCO

Our social and interactive innovation integrates a comprehensive approach to flood prevention, leveraging a dynamic database, an informative video campaign, and a coll...

Agriculture Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

HydroAir Mapping System

Our innovation is a pioneering approach to climate resilience, focusing on the interconnectedness of air quality and flood risks. The system utilizes advanced Arduino-...

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

Aero Sentinel: Environmental Scout

Our innovation, Aero Sentinel: Environmental Scout, revolutionizes environmental monitoring by integrating advanced air quality sensing technology with drone mobility....

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Health

Heavy Precipitation Multi-hazards Wildfires

Dopomoga Climate Resilience Platform

The Dopomoga Climate Resilience Platform is a versatile digital tool designed to address climate challenges. Integrating AI for data analysis, it provides real-time en...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Forestry

Droughts Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

Increasing soil moisture content

The innovation is aimed at reducing the impact of global warming through a complex system technology to restore and increase soil fertility.

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

Droughts Heavy Precipitation River floods

The Technology for Waterfront Management

The vertical bioretention system uses modular concrete elements to manage rainwater and reduce floods. It supports vegetation, collects rainwater, and enhances urban s...

Biodiversity Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

CliWeCaFor

Our Excel-based tool predicts climate risks by analyzing hydro-meteorological data. It provides alerts and actionable insights for managing floods, droughts, and water...

No-till in mulch

Wicker rye is planted in autumn and mulched in spring. Slots are cut in the mulch for seeds. The mulch protects soil, promotes soil life, and enhances water absorption...

Agriculture Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Data-driven Flood Risk Management Platform

Our innovation provides the technical basis for data-driven flood risk management in the 21st Century. The platform provides the technical infrastructure and functiona...

FLood aUtonomous and dIgital Driven alert system – FLUID

The innovation proposed here, combines the micro-station solution with that of autonomous drones to trigger the deployment of an autonomous drone over the area in ques...

PRAM

PRAM is an affordable IoT device with a 3D mm-wave radar that monitors and maps flood waters, wave overtopping, and road damage. It offers real-time flood modeling, in...

Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods River floods

Non-destructive monitoring of forest and water of Ropotamo river

Remote and non-destructive monitoring with a flying drone (UAV) equipped with multispectral sensors is an innovative approach for assessing the state of surface vegeta...

Droughts Heavy Precipitation Multi-hazards

Lobelia.AgroClimate

Lobelia.AgroClimate platform for Soil Moisture Monitoring and Climate Risk Assessment data is a comlete digital solution designed for agriculture and environmental man...

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction

Torbay Community Development Trust

Scope for innovation are: Rewilding urban areas and shorelines to reduce the impacts of flooding in Torbay integrated with water sensitive urban planning, design and i...

Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

Bit-a-Green

BitaGreen's tool boosts urban climate resilience by integrating green infrastructure. It uses remote-sensing and crowdsourced data for cost-benefit analyses and climat...

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas

vertECO® – the multifunctional green wall

vertECO® is a green wall that treats wastewater with plants and microbes. It purifies water for reuse, cutting tap water use by 50%. The system is eco-friendly, easy t...

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation Storms

SACIP

SACIP is a GIS tool providing real-time and future climate data for port infrastructure, enabling precise risk assessment and strategic adaptation. It enhances operati...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation River floods

GreenSense & Solutions

GreenSense & Solutions tackles pollution in the Korca Region with real-time monitoring devices and a user-friendly website. It combines advanced sensors with commu...

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods Storms

Technology&Ideas

Our innovation combines climate and water monitoring of Lake Ohrid with social innovations. It uses advanced equipment to track lake conditions and engage local commun...

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Heavy Precipitation River floods Sea level rise

Visualization, simulation and analyzes of the impact of climate change processes on biofiltration capacity with metaverse technology

ProVerse creates a 3D model of the Danube Delta using real-time data for water quality monitoring. Advanced analytics forecast trends and identify risks. Community pla...

Biodiversity Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

Tiny Forest in Athens

Our Tiny Forest in Athens creates green space and engages the community in planting and citizen science. It mitigates heat stress and supports urban wildlife. With 600...

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas

Education

Heavy Precipitation Multi-hazards River floods

ARGOS

Our solution is a cloud platform (ARGOS) for managing and monitoring weather-induced emergencies, serving as a climate change adaptation measure in regions with increa...

3C for Cities

Urban growth combined with increasing rainfall intensities due to climate change may lead to a rapid increase of urban flooding risk. Software based systems where diff...

Disaster risk reduction Transport

A LAM model for regions with complex orography

The increase in planetary temperature has led to an increase in the thermal energy resources available for convective phenomena, to an increase in the evaporative pote...

Alma raingarden

Increased rainfall and urban development increase the risk of flooding in many areas. More rainwater and stormwater has to be handled locally. Authorities and develope...

Ecosystem-based approaches

Nature-based Services

Bufferblock

Due to climate change, more and more heavy rainfalls will occur and many cities are now facing the problems of streets being flooded because of the stormwater. Our inn...

CENTAUR

Due to urban spread and more intense rainfall, water infrastructure is often unable to convey flows during rainfall leading to flash flooding and pollution. The usual ...

GM4W – GeoGuard Module for Water vapor monitoring

Monitoring the temporal and spatial variability of precipitable water vapour (PWV) at a local scale is important to improve the probabilistic nowcasting and forecastin...

Helsinki’s stormwater filtration unit

Urban floods are identified as one of Helsinki’s most important climate hazards. Coupled with population growth and densifying urban structure, flood risk is likely to...

NEFOCAST

In spite of the variety of existing methods to measure precipitation, the retrieval of rainfall fields is still a matter of research, because of the high number of app...

Permeable Polymer Concrete

Floods have always been a serious problem for Albania, but with the uncontrolled demographical changes during the post-communism period the cost and amount of damage h...

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Polder Roof (Polderdak)

The Polder Roof stores heavy rainfall on flat roofs to prevent urban flooding, to reduce heat stress, and to use rainfall during droughts.

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Rainwater in kindergarten

Water management is an important issue in urban design due to the growing concern of water scarcity. Rainfall patterns are likely to change in the future as a conseque...

Roads for Water

The impact of roads on landscapes and surface hydrology is now often negative. Roads cause erosion. They trigger sedimentation and cause local flooding. Road bodies ar...

Seed blanket for Extensive Green Roofs

Green roofs provide many benefits, e.g. storm water runoff reduction; increase insulation properties; reduce heat island effect through evapotranspiration. Although mo...

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Self-erecting flood protection system

In case of sudden floods litlle time may be available to prevent damage. The presented flood protection system is self-erecting and does not depend on electricity or m...

SenZ2 wireless level radar transmitter

Monitoring water system infrastructures in real-time, and in high resolution, is very important to provide early warnings in cases of floods and to eventually understa...

Smart blue-green roof system

Heavy precipitation / pluvial floods: rainfall events that result in 1) (urban) floods due to exceedance of: drainage capacity, and 2) flash floods, defined as rapid f...

Smart Rainfall System

The climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and the hydrogeological risk is increasing also because larger numbers of people a...

Urban flood hazard analysis

Climate change will lead to more extreme precipitation events for many cities in the world. In support of climate adaptation planning, there is a need for a flood haza...

Urban flood nowcasting system

Cities are becoming more vulnerable to flooding because of rapid urbanization and increasing rainfall extremes due to climate change. There is an increasing need for f...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

URBRAIN

The traditional urban planning and stormwater management can no longer respond to high intensity rain events (climate change) and for sustainable development alternati...

Transport Water management

WaterView – IR2

Today precipitation is monitored by combining terrestrial systems, weather radars and satellite images. The quality of today's precipitation mapping is yet to be satis...

Futureproof peat meadow polder

Peat meadow areas have to deal with soil subsidence and high emissions of carbon dioxide, because of the oxidation of the organic peat soil. The area also has to deal ...