QUICS
Quantifying Uncertainty in Integrated Catchment Studies
| Coordinatore | THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Organization address
address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 4˙058˙233 € |
| EC contributo | 4˙058˙233 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN |
| Funding Scheme | MC-ITN |
| Anno di inizio | 2014 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2014-06-01 - 2018-05-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Organization address
address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK contact info |
UK (SHEFFIELD) | coordinator | 1˙029˙849.92 |
| 2 |
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Organization address
address: Stevinweg 1 contact info |
NL (DELFT) | participant | 639˙240.47 |
| 3 |
LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Organization address
address: 5 AVENUE DES HAUTS FOURNEAUX contact info |
LU (ESCH SUR ALZETTE) | participant | 506˙823.90 |
| 4 |
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4 contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | participant | 470˙263.21 |
| 5 |
EIDGENOESSISCHE ANSTALT FUR WASSERVERSORGUNG ABWASSERREINIGUNG UND GEWAESSERSCHUTZ
Organization address
address: UEBERLANDSTRASSE 133 contact info |
CH (DUEBENDORF) | participant | 366˙782.68 |
| 6 |
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Organization address
address: TYNDALL AVENUE SENATE HOUSE contact info |
UK (BRISTOL) | participant | 298˙531.64 |
| 7 |
Halcrow Group Limited
Organization address
address: BROOK GREEN 43 ELMS HOUSE HAMMERSMITH contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 271˙057.16 |
| 8 |
JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITAET GIESSEN
Organization address
address: Ludwigstrasse 23 contact info |
DE (GIESSEN) | participant | 253˙693.88 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
Organization address
address: PACO DAS ESCOLAS contact info |
PT (COIMBRA) | participant | 221˙991.00 |
| 10 |
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PUBLIC HENRI TUDOR
Organization address
address: Avenue J.F. Kennedy 29 contact info |
LU (LUXEMBOURG) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the most significant EU legislation concerning surface water management. Programs of Measures are required to ensure water bodies achieve a good ecological status. It is important to predict the impact of interventions on water quality. Man-made and natural processes control surface water quality, these are highly complex with a range of sources, transport and transformation processes. Cost estimates by EU governments indicate that billions of euros will be spent over several decades to implement WFD. There is an increasing level of concern on the implementation cost (financial and carbon). Integrated water quality models designed to predict the quality of water across the linked urban and rural scales in a catchment is seen as a tool to optimise this cost. Integrated Catchment Modelling (ICM) is based on linking numerous empirically calibrated sub-models of water quality processes. Catchment scale WQ predictions are then used to justify investment. Current water quality sub-models contain significant uncertainty. Methods have been developed to quantify uncertainty at a level however little work has been carried out to investigate WQ uncertainty propagation between sub-models. QUICS will develop a generalised catchment wide approach to uncertainty assessment that can then be used in WFD implementation studies. It will address uncertainty propagation at the spatial and temporal scales found in catchments and develop tools to reduce uncertainty by optimising sampling and monitoring and the objective selection of model structure. This will reduce uncertainty in WQ predictions and result in better informed investment decisions and so have a significant impact on WFD implementation. QUICS contains leading water quality scientists, uncertainty experts and private sector water management practitioners and modellers. It will train researchers capable of developing and implementing uncertainty management tools into ICM studies.'