- Selection of common hydrologic scenarios
- Hydraulic modelling
- Impacts of floods and low-flows
- Climate-proofing of present and planned projects
- Transnational adaptation strategy
- Water courses conservation in Ardennes
- Steenbergse Vliet investment
- Ny : integrated management of the Naives basin
News related to action
Saturday, may 15 2010Publication in the review Natural Hazards of the methodology for risk analysis in Walloon region
The paper presents a consistent micro-scale flood risk analysis procedure, relying on detailed 2D inundation modelling as well as on high resolution topographic and land use database. The flow model is based on the shallow-water equations, solved b...
Tuesday, november 9 2010
Updates on WP1 actions
WP1 Partners have been meeting on November 9th in Maastricht. Action 6 : the hydraulic models had their first runs. Partners are comparing the water height values on the borders. Inconsistency appeared that need to be solved before launching the sec...
Thursday, november 25 2010News from IWW
With climate evolution, changes in flood discharges are expected within the Meuse basin. The annual number of flood disasters increased considerably in the last decades and the price paid is constantly increasing. Within the AMICE project the work of...
Wednesday, april 6 2011WP1 updates
WP1 Partners held a meeting on April 6th, 2011 in Aachen to discuss data and methods on the economical impact assessment of floods and low-flows resulting from climate change. The meeting report and presentations can be downloaded here....
Tuesday, may 31 2011WP1 update: transnational damage functions agreed
Last WP1 meeting was held in Aachen on an, exceptionally, rainy day. Partners finally agreed on common damage functions for the flood impact assessment! First calculations can now start. Impacts from low-flows were also discussed, especially on ene...
Wednesday, august 24 2011Action 6 finished - Action 8 starts !
WP1 activities started-up again right after the summer holidays ! The day agenda was really full because a lot is going on in WP1 this year : - Action 6 is now finished, the report and summaries will be published shortly - Action 7 has reached a n...
Friday, november 25 2011WP1 meeting
Below are the documents from our last WP1 meeting : - first results are available for the impacts of low-flows on agriculture and for the impacts of floods - discussions are still going-on on the mapping of flood risks ...
Tuesday, december 11 2012Costs of climate-change-induced floods in 2050 and 2100
The goal of Action 7 within the AMICE project is the „Quantification of the impacts of future floods on the economy in the transnational Meuse basin“. In the present summaries and reports, the method for flood risk calculation is develope...
Monday, march 11 2013Wonder how the activities along the Meuse could be influenced by climate change ?
Below you can read about the potential impacts of future low-flows on some activities along the Meuse and the Rur. The AMICE climate dry scenario has been used for this assessment. Four sectors have been considered : agriculture, energy production, d...
Attached documents
EPIC-Grid
SINAVI
Dutch approach 
Action7 methodology
MIKE11
2. WP1 Meuse Symposium 
meeting report
Participants
afternoon participants
meeting report
Action 7 methodology
meeting report
participants
participants
Flood damage calculation
AMICE results 2
Summary
Samenvatting
Aufstellung
Résumé
Low-flows summary
étiages résumé
Niedrigwasser
lage debieten
lowflowsimpacts_fullreport Impacts of floods and low-flows
- Quantification of the impacts of future floods and low-flows on the economy in the transnational Meuse basin.
The annual number of flood disasters increased considerably between 1973 & 2002 and the price paid is constantly increasing.
Impacts of low-flows should not be under-estimated either: cooling circuits of power plants are under threat (reduced production), energy consumption soars up, navigability is reduced, peat dykes collapse (especially if associated with summer storms), health problems increase...
The objective is to understand the vulnerability of economic systems to a modification of the hydrology (cf ADAPT project). It will be based on known damages caused by floods & low-flows, future trends in the above sectors & maps from the hydraulic modelling. It will be performed at various scales depending on the data available.
Considering the duration & budget of AMICE, the action will be limited to: navigation, agriculture, drinking water, energy.
Executing a full uncertainty analysis is outside the scope of AMICE but scenario evaluation based on robustness will be carried out.
Each country has its own rules for impact assessment. In the first place, discussions will be needed on how to produce comparable outputs.
Either we use the different methods (may be not comparable) or we set-up a new common method (limits: needs time and maybe not re-usable in national assessments).
The IMC has already produced an inventory of each country’s methods for mapping and calculating damages.
Damage categories (internal/external, direct/indirect) are quite easily understood for floods but an adjustment will be needed for damages associated to long-lasting low-flows.
Associated costs will be calculated and added-up for each scenario. It will result in a “cost of inaction” which is the cost of future floods and low-flows, in the case where no measures are taken.