IT-WATER – High Performance Computation of Future Drought and Water Resources Scenarios in Italy
T-WATER / High Performance Computation of Future Drought and Water Resources Scenarios in Italy – is a project funded in the framework of Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) that aims to improve the performance of state-of-the-art models to produce information on the impacts of climate change on water resources by providing the first high-resolution scenarios of drought evolution in Italy, taking full advantage of the potential of high-performance computational tools (HPC).
The project, coordinated by the International Center in Environmental Monitoring – Cima Foundation with the support of Fadeout Software Srl and ItaliaMeteo Agency, will include pre-processing and bias correction of high-resolution climate change scenarios, adaptation of national hydrological models developed by CIMA Foundation for the HPC environment, runs of these models using past and future scenarios, and calculation of decision-oriented drought indicators.
By forming a consortium ranging from research institutes to small businesses and public organizations, addressing a key challenge for the future sustainability of Italy’s water resources, and doing so by improving existing operational models to work in an HPC environment, IT-WATER fully responds to SPOKE 4 Theme 4 on increasing the capacity of modeling chains to produce data and information on impacts in socio-economic sectors of relevance to Italy; this assessment will lead to the production of an open document and dataset that will include analysis of drought scenarios for the next 10 and 30 years for the entire national territory.