Consolidated datasets on biosphere – atmosphere exchanges of carbon, water and energy acquired in the long term ecological stations in the Mediterranean region are available through this database to the CIRCE Research Line 7 (Impacts of Global Change on Ecosystems and the services they provide) participants. The eddy covariance measurements have been acquired in the context of other European and National project as CarboeuropeIP, Greengrass, Carbomont, Medeflu and CarboItaly, which are also the reference for the data use policy.

Project overview

The CIRCE (Climate Change and Impact ResearCh: the Mediterranean Environment) project will investigate how global and Mediterranean climates interact, how the radiative properties of the atmosphere and the radiative fluxes vary, the interaction between cloudiness and aerosol, the modifications in the water cycle.

The economic and social consequences of climate change shall be evaluated by analyzing direct impacts on migration, tourism and energy markets together with indirect impacts on the economicsystem.

CIRCE will moreover investigate the consequences on agriculture, forests and ecosystems, human health and air quality. The variability of extreme events in the future scenario and theirimpacts will be assessed.

The integrated results discussed by the project CIRCE will be presented in the first Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean area.