Work Programme
EXTREMENESS consists of 4 interdependent technical work packages (WPs) the interrelation of which is shown in the task flow diagram (Figure 1).
WP1 Extreme Event Data Base aims at identifying extreme storm tides and related meteorological conditions in existing data sets for present and future climate conditions.
WP2 Potential Hazard Amplification aims at identifying from the cases selected in WP1, those events that bear a potential for further amplification either in storm tide levels or duration. The objective is to analyze whether or not further amplification of these events is possible under slightly different but physically still plausible conditions.
WP3 High Impact Events aims at identifying those extreme events that are highly unlikely but are potentially linked with extreme consequences. Here in particular potential consequences will be considered. Analysis and methods will be developed and tested exemplarily for the city of Emden and the Ems estuary.
In WP4 Risks and Options: Transdisciplinary Cooperation and Evaluation and together with the members of a science-stakeholder collaboration forum to be established within the project, multiple values and evaluation criteria will be identified, systematized and incorporated into a reflexive evaluation of deduced options that are meant to respond to the potential impacts identified in WP3.
Figure 1: The Figure illustrates for every work package the main tasks (blue boxes) together with the main expected results (green boxes). The role of the different project partners and of the science-stakeholder-collaboration forum (SSCF) is shown in addition.
Focus of work packages one and two (left) is on the assessment of hazards while work packages three and four concentrate on the assessment of potential impacts, adaptation and the development of criteria.