The Group of Analysis of Climate Change, Weather Risks and Inputs to the Hydrological System in the Mediterranean (CLIMAMET) develops two types of activities, research and scientific-technical assistance to public administration. In the activity of research, CLIMAMET works in three scientific lines: (i) analysis of climate change, (ii) study of weather risks, and (iii) assessment of new inputs to the hydrological system. The first scientific line is focused on the analysis of temporal and spatial variability of air temperature and precipitation, as well as other climate elements, especially in the Valencian and Mediterranean region. Research conducted by group members regarding air temperature changes in the Valencian Community outstand for its pioneering approach. They are carried out through statistical “downscaling” techniques, or the precipitation climate tendencies depending on its typology.

The group has extensive experience in the tagging of temperature and precipitation variables, through data observed in a superficial and satellite level, and its prediction in a short and medium term, as well as the analysis and prediction of extreme phenomena, with cross comparison between statistic and mesoscale models, and paramount observed and satellite data in studies of meteorological risks. For this, advanced techniques in the reconstruction-homogenisation of observed data, remote sensing, modelling and prediction are used. The second line of research is focused on the analysis of causes and dynamic processes that control the situations of meteorological risks in the Mediterranean occidental basin, with the aim to help in the improvement of the prediction of three of them: torrential rain, extreme temperatures and forest fire. The group has some tools (change mapping, impact factors and predictions) for improving the management of the effects of climate change in the IMB and warning systems of extreme events, for protocol activation of social and environmental protocols. The third scientific line analyses new inputs to the hydrological system, particularly, the contribution of fog water and environmental potential uses. These research lines find support in the CLIMAMET’s scientific infrastructure, specifically in the presence of a variety of meteorological sensors supported, in part, in the Network of meteorological towers of the Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies (CEAM), and in management data tools of spatial data available in the Geographic Information System (GIS) Laboratory of the Department of Geography. The establishment of meteorological databases is essential for climate studies, as well as for the supply of the RAMS meteorological model (Regional Atmospheric Modelling System), adapted to Mediterranean conditions by researchers of the group and used as support in the prediction of meteorological risks.

CLIMAMET has an extensive experience when it comes to the works of scientific-technical assistance to public administration. In fact, before the creation of the CLIMAMET group, its members run by María José Estrela (Director of this Group), formed a research group of the Climatology Laboratory Mix Unit CEAM_UV, which actively participated in the assistance to public administration. It is required to highlight the design and management since 2006 of the "Operational prediction of risk levels due to heat waves in the Valencian Community" programme for the Regional Ministry of Health, as well as, since 2007, the "Data validation service of the ultraviolet B radiation measurement network and optimisation of UVI level prediction processes in the Valencian Community" for the Regional Ministry of Territory and Housing of the Generalitat Valenciana. Subsequently, as the CLIMAMET Research Group (GIUV2014-209), it has continued to provide assistance to the administration, specifically to the Regional Ministry of the Environment, Water, Urban Planning and Housing with the "Study for obtaining fog water for the provision of watering places for native fauna in the Muela de Cortes hunting reserve". In addition, the director of the Group, Dr. Estrela, is a member of the Committee of Experts on Climate Change of the Generalitat Valenciana. CLIMAMET is a multidisciplinary research group with the participation of researchers from different fields such as Physical Geography, Climatology, Atmospheric Physics and Hydrology, with objectives based on common lines of research.