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MEDCLUB—starting line and first activities

Mauro Fiorentino¹, Domenico Carriero¹, Vito Iacobellis², Salvatore Manfreda³ & Ivan Portoghese⁴

1 Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Fisica dell’Ambiente, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

fiorentino@unibas.it

2 Dipartimento di Ingegneria delle Acque e di Chimica, Polytechnical University of Bari, Bari, Italy

3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

4 Water Research Institute (IRSA-CNR), Division for Water Resources, Bari, Italy

Abstract The working group MEDCLUB, proposed by Fiorentino and Iacobellis (2005), is aimed at developing a wide range of activities dealing with Climate–Soil–Vegetation (CSV) interactions in Mediterranean basins. The goal of the project is to reduce uncertainty in predictions regarding hydrological extremes, soil water balance and ecosystem response to hydrological fluctuations. The research will focus on the controlling or dominant processes acting at basin or local scale that may allow model classification in terms of temporal and spatial scales, local climate, data requirements and type of application. In the present work, we briefly present the main framework of the project and its future perspective.

Key words climate–soil–vegetation interactions; Mediterranean regions

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