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  • KomPass: Article from 12.07.2019 | Last changed: 11.12.2023

    Introduction to Climate Projections

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    Introduction to Climate Projections Climate projections provide information on … Requests can be submitted via the addresses provide for consultation purposes. … Introduction to Climate Projections …

  • Cover from 02.10.2024

    Introduction - 2023 Monitoring Report

    The cover shows a magnifying lens pointing at artwork containing arrows in various colours. In the centre of the lens is the title of the current Report.

    … Source: 2023 Monitoring Report on the DAS / KomPass Introduction 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate … … Introduction - 2023 Monitoring Report …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    VE-I-4: Road accidents due to weather conditions and weather patterns

    The picture shows a car driving on a road covered in water. It is clear to see that the headlights and windscreen wipers are switched on. Heavy rain is falling.

    … injury reached an above-average high level in the summer months of 2010 and 2013. As far as 2010 is concerned, part of the blame can be apportioned to the … 2021 should be categorised as a side effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. Owing to the introduction of less stringent regulations in the summer months, and compared to …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    GE-I-5: Pathogen vectors – case study

    The picture shows a close-up of the Asian Tiger Mosquito in the process of biting a human being.

    … of this species in Germany. According to the current state of knowledge, the introduction takes place by means of vehicular traffic from the south (for instance … 1,500 samplings in the Upper Rhine area from 2014 onwards. As early as 2013, 13 % of all traps and more than 2 % of all samplings resulted in evidence of …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    BS-I-1: Person hours due to weather-related damage events

    The picture shows an inundated landscape. In the centre of the picture a flooded road can be seen, with a lorry passing. There are people visible on the lorry’s load platform. In the picture’s foreground, part of a blue emergency vehicle is visible with blue warning lamps fitted all round the vehicle which is also driving along this flooded road.

    … river basins – have characterised the deployment situation. In the early summer of 2013, entire sweeps of country in Central Europe were inundated owing to rainfalls … for the collection of call-out figures within their area of responsibility. The introduction of a nationwide homogeneous regulation is not foreseeable for the near …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    BO-R-2: Permanent grassland terrain

    The picture shows a grassland with mown grass. The mown grass is lying in rows. In the right-hand margin a tractor can be seen turning hay. In the upper margin you can see a hay bale.

    … under agricultural use from the adverse effects of climate change. Between 1991 and 2013 grassland areas were experiencing a continuous and significant declining trend. Since 2013 the areas and the respective proportion of land in agricultural use have been … water bodies. The total of Germany’s grassland terrain decreased between 1991 and 2013 by roughly 700,000 ha. Of 5.3 million ha originally, only some 4.6 million ha …

  • Cover from 02.10.2024

    Monitoring Report 2023

    2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

    … 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change Introduction 2023 Monitoring Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    Effects chain – Example presentation from the ‘soil’ action field

    … grassland in particular, helps to stabilise a landscape’s water balance. Since 2013, there has been a precept in force nationwide requiring the conservation of … unless new grassland is created elsewhere in the territory concerned. Up until 2013 the grassland terrain was diminishing continuously and significantly. After 2013 this trend was reversed. Since then, the grassland terrain and its share of the …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    GE-R-1 + 2: Heat warning service and Public awareness of health problems

    … the ‘Newsletter Hitzewarnungen’ (heat warnings) (www.hitzewarnungen.de); since July 2013 also via smartphone apps and via apps associated with disaster warnings (NINA, … for the years 2018 or 2019, as the conditions for data storage changed since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) in 2018, thus making …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    BAU-I-3: Cooling degree days

    The picture shows the glass frontage of a house reflecting the sun. Some of the windows are part-shaded by means of external roller shutters.

    … Cooling degree days In the three summer climate regions according to DIN 4108-2:2013-02 , i.e. the authoritative standard for summer heat protection of buildings, … heat protection in summer, are described in the relevant DIN (standard) 4108-2:2013-02 which bears the same name. The requirements laid out in this standard are … heat protection always in the forefront of their mind. However, DIN standard 4108-2:2013-02 defines only the requirements to be fulfilled by new builds, building …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    BD-I-2: Temperature index for bird species communities

    The picture shows an icterine warbler singing from a twig.

    … approximately 2010, but this was followed by a slightly retrograde development by 2013, whereas this was in turn followed by a distinct increase. However, the development between 2010 and 2013 can be attributed in the first place to effects of weather patterns which had … with adverse effects on many breeding bird populations. The developments since 2013 show that the more long-term positive trend reflected by the indicator has …