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ADAPTER (ADAPT TERrestrial systems) - Development and provision of innovative simulation-based information products for weather- and climateresistant agriculture (ADAPTER)
Project
Project code: Helmholtz-ADAPT TERrestrial systems
Contract period: 01.06.2019
- 30.04.2023
Budget: 1,200,000 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: agriculture, adaptation to climate change, soil weather, knowledge transfer
ADAPTER (ADAPT TERrestrial systems) is a research-based, applied knowledge transfer project of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF) with the partners Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG) and the Institute of Biosciences and Geosciences (IBG-3, Agrosphere) at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ). The ADAPTER project goal is to develop and provide innovative simulation-based information products for weather- and climate-resilient agriculture. This means that ADAPTER makes up-to-date ("soil") weather and comprehensive long-term climate change information freely available to agriculture and all interested parties as simple analyses, data products and information: In the field of measurements and forecasts, the current state and development of the water balance, including groundwater, are in the foreground. For optimized soil management, Forschungszentrum Jülich uses prediction simulations with the hydrological numerical model ParFlow and the regional Earth System Model Terrestrial Systems Modelling Platform (TSMP) in combination with observational data. For climate adaptation measures GERICS derives prototypical "climate products" and services from a variety of data sources. ADAPTER goals and products are further developed by involving partners in practice and users. The knowledge transfer between science and practice takes place via a practice network and the ADAPTER product platform. ADAPTER is user-oriented science that makes applicable information available to those involved in practice. The concrete information needs of various key partners from the agricultural sector define the concrete project goals and the design of the products. The forecasts will be optimized by a measuring network of soil moisture sensors, which will be realized as a Citizen Science approach with the help of the forecast users. Concrete questions in the areas of optimized soil management and climate adaptation measures will result from expert discussions and surveys. In addition to the transfer of knowledge, ADAPTER is also a technology transfer project with its high-resolution simulation calculations, innovative measuring program and comprehensive climate data sets and the associated challenges in the field of high-performance computing and big data processing. Complementary to existing information services, ADAPTER wants to make information available that can be integrated into the concrete agricultural business planning. To this end, ADAPTER combines many years of expertise in the integrated modeling of terrestrial systems and in climate services relating to questions of regional climate change from the two Helmholtz centers in Jülich and Geesthacht. ADAPTER is supported by the Competence Centre for High Performance Computing in Terrestrial Systems (HPSC-TerrSys) and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The ADAPTER core team consists of project participants from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-3, Agrosphere) and the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS).
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural hydrology
- Agricultural Meteorology
- Soil science
- Computer science
