MoBClim

Project title:
Diachronic modeling of (bio)climate conditions at a fine spatial scale in the main cities of North-East Romania (western Moldavia)

Acronym: MOBCLIM

Project number: 96PCE/15.07.2025;

Project code: PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0897

Implementation period: 15.07.2025-14.07.2028

Budget: 229.473,80 Euro

 

Project summary:

The increased amount of weather observations combined with the higher accuracy of the interpolation methods, fostered by machine learning, drive nowadays the climate assessment toward modeling approaches. The current project proposes an extensive spatial insight of climate and bioclimatic conditions in the main 8 cities of North-East Romania through high spatial resolution modeling. The climate modeling will be performed in MOBCLIM project through satellite image disaggregation, but especially with ENVI-met software, and explored with similar tools (PALM-4U). For each city the (bio)climate modeling will sample the main local climate zones (LCZ), but also the city center, defined by the highest human mobility. Input data for climate modeling and also the validation of modeling results will be represented by gridded datasets, official weather monitoring data, but also from in-situ or mobile measurements planned in the MOBCLIM project. Cold and heat stress will be equally tackled with their characteristics determined by the atmospheric circulation conditions. A diachronic perspective of the proposed analysis will be given by the assessment of the present conditions, as derived from observation (2004-2023), but also of future medium-term conditions, as estimated by climate scenarios (2051-2070). Dissemination of the scientific results is split towards scientific deliverables, but also to the support of the sustainable urban planning in the context of climate change.