EMRA

Project information
Development of an extreme weather monotoring to assess the risks and for provision of decision support in extreme weather management for agriculture The project aims to develop and implement an extreme weather monitoring und risk assessment system (EMRA) which quantifies the acute, chronic and future risk potential of extreme weather events for agricultural production as well as to provide practical decision support tools for the agricultural extreme weather management. Appropriate organisational and technical structures will be developed and implemented by the involvement of test farms for apple production in northern Germany as well as wheat production in the Uckermark (northeast Germany). All data will be merged in an interactive data node via interfaces and data services. The development of automated analyses routines of the connected data sets forms the basis to provide information on frequency and risk potential of extreme weather events as well as risk mitigation potential of different available management opportunities. This decision support information will be visualized and made available to users as maps, graphs and indexes. For the participation in the extreme weather monitoring and the use of the decision support tool an App and a web portal will be developed as communication tools. To ensure the continuation and expansion of EMRA beyond the project funding period all technical structures and solutions will be constructed in a compatible way and the development of a long-term continuation concept will be accompanied by an advisory board. Different scenarios of a future concept will be analysed considering appropriate licensing, financing and data security issues. The practical relevance and benefit is guaranteed by the interdisciplinary and target-oriented cooperation of project partners from economics, science, applied research and practical agriculture.
Project partners: 
JKI, Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Obstbauversuchsring des Alten Landes e.V.
proPlant GmbH
Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
Project dates: 
February 2017 to January 2020
Contact
Contact person: 
Dr. Sandra Krengel
Contact email: 
Contact organisation: 
Julius Kühn-Institut Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen (JKI) - Institut für Strategien und Folgenabschätzung im Pflanzenschutz
Funding
Funding agency: 
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Grant: 
k€1071
Total budget: 
k€1422