O1. Reconstruction of past landscape changes in the Carpathians and the lower Danube driven by Holocene climate change and sea-level oscillations
Assessment of landscape dynamics magnitude, sensitivity and adaptation to past climate change with focus on warming phases in a) mountain landforms following the last deglaciation (post-Younger Dryas) in the Southern Carpathians and b) Lower Danube floodplain and delta evolution after Black Sea reconnection to World Ocean (the last 9400 years) emphasizing the response to past sea-level rise phases
O2. Recent to present response of landforms and geo-hazards to climate trends and increasing variability
We follow different recent time intervals depending on the availability of instrumental data recordings: i) the periglacial processes and slope dynamics in the Carpathians (1960 – present) and ii) post-LIA (Little Ice Age) transformations of Danube delta plain and coast (1850 – present) under the impact of sea-level rise and sediment discharge reduction.
O3. Predicting future changes in landforms dynamics and hazard-related phenomena under different climate change and sea-level rise scenarios during the 21st century
The outputs of this objective will offer a first perspective on both local and regional-scale investigated landforms response to projected climate variations.
The end result of this objective will be the ground information for future landslides-related hazards assessment in the key sites of the project and at the scale of the four targeted areas from the Carpathians. In the Danube Delta, assessing the future behaviour of the sensitive areas will produce valuable information about spatial patterns of deltaic and coastline sectors differentiated by their response to the future sea level rise.