by Yen Lam | Dec 5, 2019 | News
Carmelo León, researcher at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and coordinator of the Soclimpact project, presented yesterday at COP25 an exhibition on the impact of climate change on tourism. The director of the TIDES University Institute of the ULPGC and...
by Yen Lam | Nov 30, 2019 | News
The sixth Med-CORDEX workshop was held from 25 to 29 November 2019 in Toulouse (France). The sixth Med-CORDEX workshop aims to review the activities of the second phase of Med-CORDEX, including the so-called reference runs with coupled RCSM and the three Cordex...
by Yen Lam | Nov 20, 2019 | News
To compare and develop models that can help to assess climate change impacts and reduce carbon emissions in 12 European islands and archipelagos (Cyprus and Malta, Baltic Islands, Balearic Islands, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and...
by Yen Lam | Sep 15, 2019 | News
In the framework of the climate induced impacts on tourism sector, we investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of forest fire danger focusing on the Mediterranean islands, using the fire weather index (FWI) as climate hazard indicator. The FWI uses sub-daily...
by Yen Lam | Jul 25, 2019 | News
By the end of this year, the cost of the impact of climate change on the Canary Islands and 11 other European island territories will be known. It will then be when the overall results of a project led by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) will be...