Proiecte
CCI Lakes: Climate Change Innitiative Lakes
| Responsible / Lead: | Dr. Albert Scrieciu, CS II |
| Coordinator: | Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) |
| Beneficiary: | GeoEcoMar |
| Funder / Funding body: | European Space Agency |
| Funding scheme: | ESA - Programul Climate Change Initiative |
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Start date: | 01.02.2019 |
| End date: | 31.01.2022 |
CCI Lakes: Climate Change Innitiative Lakes
The CCI Lakes project consisted of producing and validating key variables for the assessment of the effects of climate change in lakes around the world and is part of the European Space Agency’s initiative to study climate change. These variables were: water temperature and water level, water extent, ice cover and water colour. Variables were obtained through satellite data from the 1990s to the present day and had constituted the most time-extensive databases of this kind. The first sets of variables, obtained within the project, were published in 2020 for a set of over 250 lakes.
GeoEcoMar had tested the use of three of the variables – water temperature, extent and water colour – to assess the effect of climate change on the aquatic ecosystems of the Danube Delta.
Preliminary results (not published) had shown an increase in water temperature earlier in the spring season and an increase in average temperature in the summer season. These increases might had been more pronounced in lakes, which are more exposed to incident solar radiation. Variations in water temperature and colour were also important indicators of the health of aquatic ecosystems and their long-term evolution.