nl-NL webmaster ZET solutions b.v. Fri, 18 May 2012 19:34:46 GMT copyright Overview with workshops, discussion meetings, the spring school and other events, which were held during the HighNoon project. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10793184 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:11:10 GMT HighNoon Several hundreds of millions of people in Southeast Asia depend, to varying degrees, on the freshwater reservoirs of the Himalayan glaciers. Consequently, it is important to detect the potential impact of climate changes on the Himalayan glaciers at an early stage. It's now been revealed that these glaciers are declining less rapidly than was previously thought. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10789604 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:15:22 GMT HighNoon An Open Science and Policy Seminar was organised in conclusion of the HighNoon Project in collaboration with the EU FP7 on the 4th of April at The Silver Oak, IHC http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10789189 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:42:54 GMT HighNoon A video compilation of the Ganga, which has been made by HighNoon team members. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10787783 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:09:11 GMT HighNoon The HighNoon Spring School has started this week at IITD in Delhi, India. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10787202 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:51:43 GMT HighNoon HighNoon is organising a Spring School on Adaptation to changing water resources and water demand with glacier retreat and changing monsoon precipitation and related science policy interaction. This Spring School will improve your knowledge on the climate change and socio economic changes, understand uncertainty and will also give you hands-on experience in participatory processes to develop adaptation measures. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10758351 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:51:19 GMT HighNoon HighNoon Science – Policy workshop on 5 April 2011, New Delhi. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10762759 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:07:15 GMT HighNoon HighNoon, with the support of ICIMOD, DFID and the SDC, organised a Trans-Himalayan workshop on "Glacier, Snow Melt and Runoff in the Himalayas" on 6–7 February 2012, at ICIMOD in Kathmandu, Nepal. The two-days workshop aimed at bringing together regional and international researchers, government administration and donor agencies to discuss the current state of cryospheric and glacio-hydrologic research in the wider Hindu Kush – Himalayan region. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10786702 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:56:56 GMT HighNoon Regional Cryosphere Knowledge Hub. Conference at ICIMOD Kathmandu (14 - 16 May 2012) http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10777594 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:48:25 GMT HighNoon Climate change is projected to have a short term and long term impact on the hydrological system. On the short term discharge of rivers in the north will increase due to the melting of snow and glaciers. On the long term the snow and glaciers will have melted for a great part and their contribution to the rivers’ flow will decrease,” says a HighNoon observation. With this background, a Panel Discussion, ‘Adapting to the Changing Climate and Water Resource Availability in Ganges Basin’ was organised on February 3 coinciding with the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2012. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10776230 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:10:56 GMT HighNoon The HighNoon programme is described on page 14 of this electronic book containing papers which were presented during an international conference in December 2010. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10792007 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:35:52 GMT HighNoon A special session on water on the sidelines of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in the Indian capital, hosted by TERI, sought to seek solutions to the looming global water crisis. HighNoon project leader Dr Eddy Moors had been interviewed for this article. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10779442 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:02:41 GMT HighNoon Editorial: The HighNoon project has entered its final phase. The interaction with stakeholders in the case study areas and other stakeholders receives much attention. In Allahabad and in the Kansabati Basin stakeholder workshops were organized at the district and community level to prioritize adaption options. The HighNoon Spring School is about to start to share and further discuss solved and unresolved climate change adaptation issues. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10774532 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:29:28 GMT HighNoon Side event at the 12th Delhi Sustainability Development Summit. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10762755 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:02:25 GMT HighNoon This ongoing study seeks to assess the impact of Himalayan glaciers retreat and possible changes in the Indian summer monsoon on the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources in Northern India. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10773644 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:22:47 GMT HighNoon The final report of the Water and Global Change programme (WATCH), an extensive analysis of the world’s water resources, is made available on October 13, 2011, significantly expanding our understanding of climate change and land use impacts on the global hydrological cycle. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10749605 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:15:56 GMT HighNoon Regional climate models (RCMs), as applied within the HighNoon project, use glacier areas and glacier volumes in combination with mass and energy balance models and therefore allow a dynamical coupling of glaciers with the climate. To provide the required glacier data to the climate modelers, UNIGE collected glacier outlines from various databases and compiled a comprehensive inventory of the best available glacier data for the entire HighNoon modeling domain. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10737325 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:32:33 GMT HighNoon HighNoon project coordinator Eddy Moors discusses in Research Media glacial retreat in the Himalayas and the need for improved climate and hydrological modelling for the development of adaptive solutions to help the region continue to thrive. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10745733 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:23:49 GMT HighNoon Tanya Singh had her internship at TERI and focused mainly within the framework of WP 4 of the HighNoon project. WP 4 intends to develop a new participatory methodology for the prioritization of adaptation strategies in response to climate change. In total there were two main goals for the internship. Firstly, to develop an evaluation framework, which makes an assessment of the applied methodology developed in WP 4 for the stakeholder workshops possible. Secondly, to carry out a literature review in order to collect different possibilities on how to address the economic dimension in the participatory prioritization process on climate change adaptation strategies in phase III of the HighNoon project. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10731189 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:42:51 GMT HighNoon Held in San Fransisco, USA http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10730378 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:20:51 GMT HighNoon Increasing water productivity in agriculture, making targeted investments and putting in place the right institutional measures will be the key to effective water use for food and environmental security. The main purpose of the conference is to find opportunities to improve farmer income, food production, food security and promote environmentally sustainable agricultural water management practices in Nepal in the face future uncertainty due to anticipated drivers of change including CC. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10730376 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:14:32 GMT HighNoon Ewout Zwolsman, an MSc student from Wageningen University, assessed for the HighNoon project the contribution of snow- and icemelt to the water demand in the Ganges basin as part of his final Masters thesis. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10717478 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:05:18 GMT HighNoon The India Water forum 2011 addressed the dynamics of water and climate change, and deliberated on significant issues specific to water security, means to resolve the same by investment in natural infrastructure, monitoring efficient usage, water treatment and leveraging eco-friendly technology for water usage that will help in ensuring sustainable development. Eddy Moors represented HighNoon with the presentation "Adaptation to changing water resources in the Ganges basin, Northern India." http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10730318 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:11:10 GMT HighNoon Article has been submitted for publication in GTZ. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10713398 Wed, 25 May 2011 21:48:44 GMT HighNoon Climate change affects people both globally and regionally. Pankaj Kumar, for example, who works at the Climate Service Center and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, and is involved in the HighNoon project, is investigating the interplay of dry season and monsoon in India. He wants to discover the future outlook for water resource availability on the subcontinent. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10691232 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:37:56 GMT HighNoon From 25–27 January 2011, HighNoon members gathered in Chamonix, France, for a snow melt modelling workshop. Representatives of different modelling groups compared and discussed the spatial and temporal dynamics of snowmelt contribution to river flow in the Ganges basin. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10677564 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:40:49 GMT HighNoon This newsletter gives an overview with the Delivery Reports on HighNoon Modelling Domain; Sensitivity analysis of the indicator framework; Baseline assessment of current and future socioeconomic scenarios for Northern India, and the analysis of climate uncertainty. Applied methods are described and a report from the vulnerability Assessment Workshops. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10674970 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:24:00 GMT HighNoon The value of short term weather forecasts in a rice-wheat cropping system in northeastern India, Colloquium presentation on February 02, 2011, by Kenny Aberson (research done at IIT Karagpur). http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10671165 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:36:10 GMT HighNoon The recognition of an error in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change put the spotlight on glaciers. Not all glaciers are about to disappear, but their recession is real and so are the impacts the loss of this “stored water” will have on ecosystems and societies, Ray Bradley asserts. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10686546 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:25:17 GMT HighNoon The coming months multi stakeholder workshops will be organised at the community, district and state level in the four case study areas. These workshops aim to discuss with stakeholders about their vulnerability to climate change as a first step towards identifying and prioritising multi-sector adaptation measures. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10666430 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:06:31 GMT HighNoon Bridging the data gap for adaptation to climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10405427 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:32:37 GMT HighNoon James Cohen is a PhD student at the University of Salford, under supervision of Professor David Collins. James obtained a First Class BA in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2008 and is going to work on WP2. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10403062 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:18:02 GMT HighNoon 2nd progress meeting between the European partners at the Met Office-Hadley Centre, Exeter and the Indian partners at the FITT-IITD, New Delhi, in the ETS, Deans Complex http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10397900 Fri, 28 May 2010 16:14:13 GMT HighNoon The aim of this session in Vienna, Austria (May 2-7, 2010) is to explore how climate change is and will be affecting natural and economic resources in vulnerable mountain regions and what possibilities may exist to cope with climatic risks. Specifically, the session aims to bring together scientists working on the scientific basis of climate change adaptation in mountain region. The session welcomes contributions from different scientific disciplines and research programmes, in particular from developing countries. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10356106 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:47:48 GMT HighNoon The 1st HighNoon Progress Meeting was held as well in Wageningen (The Netherlands) as in New Delhi (India) on November, 25. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10352647 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:18:02 GMT HighNoon The European Union recently launched the 'HighNoon' research project in India, which aims at assessing the impact of Himalayan glaciers retreat and possible changes of the Indian summer monsoon on the distribution of water resources in Northern India. The project further aims to provide recommendations for appropriate and efficient adaptation strategies to hydrological extreme events through a participatory process. http://www.eu-highnoon.org/nl/25222819-%5Blinkpage%5D.html?opage_id=25222852&location=10544250781250781,10304057 Tue, 19 May 2009 12:21:07 GMT HighNoon