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KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

KM-I-3: Height of storm surges

The picture shows a storm surge wave breaking over a coastal building. A metal mast is visible in the background.

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

KM-I-2: Sea levels

The picture shows a sandy beach on the Baltic Sea coast. There is seawater lapping around a hooded beach chair (Strandkorb). In the background, the sea is visible with powerful waves and dark thunderclouds above.

… Associated content Documents KM-I-2 Indikator-Factsheet (213.20 kB) Tags Competence Centre on Climate Impacts and Adaptation … …

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

WW-I-10: Water temperature of watercourses

The picture shows a shallow, slow-flowing watercourse in sunny weather under a cloudless sky. Through the clear, reddish-brown shimmering water, the stony bed of the river is visible; some of the stones in the foreground project beyond the surface of the water. The banks are lined by mixed woodlands.

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

BS-R-4: Active emergency relief responders in civic protection

The picture shows three emergency vehicles operated by the fire brigade and the THW emergency relief organisation: The vehicles are standing on a National Road, one of them is a fire-fighting group vehicle. A man wearing a high-visibility vest and a pair of THW livery trousers can be seen running along the middle gangway.

… relief organisations and the Länder. Associated content Documents BS-R-4 Indikator-Factsheet (174.89 kB) Tags disaster heavy rain storm Competence Centre on Climate …

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

BS-R-1: Information on how to act in a disaster situation

The picture shows a group of two women and two men participating in a First Aid training exercise. The course leader uses a doll to demonstrate cardiac massage.

… Associated content Documents BS-R-1 Indikator-Factsheet (181.86 kB) Tags disaster heavy rain storm Competence Centre on Climate …

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.

… Associated content Documents BS-I-1 Indikator-Factsheet (157.64 kB) Tags disaster heavy rain storm Competence Centre on Climate …

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

LW-R-6: Agricultural irrigation

The picture shows an arable field with young potato plants being irrigated by a drip irrigation unit.

… . Associated content Documents LW-R-6 Indikator-Factsheet (265.65 kB) Tags agriculture irrigation precipitation Competence Centre on …

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

LW-I-3: Hailstone damage in agriculture

The picture shows a field of maize after a tempest. The maize plants are heavily damaged, with stalks snapped off. Between the plants, there are still areas of standing water.

… Schadensregulierung. Berlin, 26 pp. Associated content Documents LW-I-3 Indikator-Factsheet (206.70 kB) Tags acidity Competence Centre on Climate Impacts and …

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

WW-R-1: Water use index

The picture shows a hand on the handle of a tap, with a weak water jet pouring into a wash-hand basin.

… Associated content Documents WW-R-1 Indikator-Factsheet (199.64 kB) Tags water utilisation Competence Centre on Climate Impacts …

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

BAU-R-3: Investments in the energetic refurbishment of building envelopes

The picture shows a covered roof structure with insulation installed on its left-hand side.

… Associated content Documents BAU-R-3 Indikator-Factsheet (172.07 kB) Tags financing Competence Centre on Climate Impacts and …

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.

… Associated content Documents GE-I-5 Indikator-Factsheet (310.62 kB) Tags bathing water cyanobacteria cyanotoxin phytoplankton …

KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

FW-I-5: Damaged timber – extent of random use

The picture shows a dense spruce forest. Several trees are dead, and in the foreground there is deadwood lying on the forest floor.

… or the foothills of the Alps. Associated content Documents FW-I-5 Indikator-Factsheet (303.64 kB) Tags spruce Competence Centre on Climate Impacts and …