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Investigations of extreme weather events and their impact on viticulture, fruit, hop and vegetable production
Project
Project code: 2813HS002
Contract period: 01.10.2013
- 31.03.2015
Budget: 125,498 Euro
Purpose of research: Basic research
The latest Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) predicts an increasing occurrence of extreme weather events such as heat, drought, thunderstorm and heavy rainfall. The objective of the joint research project „„Agrarrelevante Extremwetterlagen und Möglichkeiten von Risikomanagementsystemen' is to investigate the future relevance of extreme weather events and their consequences for agricultural and silvicultural production in Germany. In addition to arable crops such as wheat, barley, canola, maize and sugar beet, the present study also includes apple, wine, hop, carrot and brassicas as models for the group of special crops. The project implementation comprises two main steps. The first step includes the definition of thresholds for the relevant weather extremes by evaluating literature and expert knowledge and to implement these results into the current climate change scenarios (in cooperation with the German Meteorological Service DWD). In a second step analyses of causes and effects will be conducted to derive qualitative and quantitative consequences for these specialized crops using statistical methods to study the relationships between weather and yield data. The resulting relationships will contribute to obtain further knowledge of monetary consequences due to extreme weather events in specialized crops.
Section overview
Subjects
- Arboriculture
- Viticulture
- Specialised crops
- Climate Change
