1. Water-related Disasters (WARD)
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Research Centre for Agricultural and Forest Environment
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS)
Joint research programme:
Water-related Disasters (WARD)
Involved Scientists:
Z. W. Kundzewicz (PAS, PIK), L. Menzel (PIK)
A. Bronstert (PIK), F.- W. Gerstengarbe (PIK),
M. Radziejewski (PAS), and others

2. Current research activites and expertise at PIK
What is special about WARD at PIK?
- Experience and results from the earlier works in the subject area
• European: EUROTAS, RIBAMOD, IRMA - LAHoR,
• National: GLOWA - Elbe, DFNK
- Co-operation with South African partners on floods
and droughts in SA (Thukela HELP-basin)
- Availability of the data bank system in PIK

3. Current research activites and expertise at PIK
- Availability of climate downscaling, hydrological
and integrated models, e.g.
EDS, HBV-D, TRAIN, LADEMO
- Multi-Disciplinary environment with expertise in
Climatology, Hydrology, Social and Economic
Systems
- Our strong sides and interests:
• Regional climate modelling, downscaling
• Hydrological modelling
• Climate change impacts
• Land-use change impacts

4. Current research activites and expertise at PAS
- Partners in MICE (Modelling Impacts of Climate Extremes) Project of EU
- Multiple contributions to IPCC TAR (among others: Kundzewicz – Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 13 – Europe, of IPCC WG2 TAR)
- Strong sides and interests:
• Change detection in time series of hydrological data
• Floods vs. sustainable development
• Flood-related conflicts