Next Generation Environmental and eXtended Tools for Extreme Events & Plant Resilience Assessment (NEXT-Gen-EXPERT)
This use case focuses on the development of automated tools for impact assessment of climate events.
Partner:
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
TUM School of Life Sciences (TUM)
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ)
Description
To develop effective crop adaptation strategies, it’s crucial to assess climate change impacts, including the frequency and intensity of extreme events across various spatial scales. A key challenge is the fragmentation of climate and weather data, which differ in infrastructure, resolution, and purpose, complicating the creation of a unified dataset for agricultural impact studies.
The “NEXT-Gen-EXPERT” use case (UC) seeks to address this by developing advanced tools and algorithms for a seamless data workflow of bias-corrected, downscaled climate scenarios at multiple spatial resolutions, providing a benchmark for agricultural climate impact research.
Supported by NFDI4Earth and partners (DWD, DKRZ, TUDD), the UC will evaluate CMIP6 climate scenarios against previous CMIP phases (e.g., CMIP5) to model wheat yield impacts across scales, capturing spatial variability and changes over time. An automated dashboard will facilitate data extraction, model selection, mapping, and analysis, helping researchers visualize climate and crop impact data.
Additionally, large language models will assist in querying databases for variable and metadata mapping. As climate data evolves, automated tools for updating impact assessments will benefit the agriculture community (e.g., AgMIP) and other sectors (ISIMIP, AgML community).
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