With climate change, mountain water resources are becoming a major issue.
With climate change, mountain water resources are becoming a major issue. Their evolution—still difficult to grasp on a global scale—is at the heart of the MountAInWater project , in which researchers from the University of Lausanne are involved.
Coordinated by the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and funded by the philanthropic organization Schmidt Science*, this project brings together academic institutions from six countries in Europe and North America around an ambitious goal: to produce the first high-resolution global reanalysis of mountain water resources.
Within the project, researchers from the ICE group at the University of Lausanne will play a key role in developing artificial intelligence models to better understand changes in water resources. Concretely, data collected at four high-mountain reference sites—in the Canadian Rockies, the Andes, the Pamir, and the Himalayas—will be used to improve physical models capable of simulating tipping points related to the cryosphere (glaciers, snow, and permafrost), as well as water flows originating from mountain systems.
Read more at: University of Lausanne
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