I am a climate scientist at Deltares focusing on the impacts of climate change on urban areas and developing adaptation strategies and climate services to enhance resilience. Within the REACHOUT project, I work on climate resilient development pathways for cities and support the development of the Triple-A Toolkit.
I am strongly motivated to enhance the resilience of cities against climate change, predominantly through the integration of adaptation, mitigation and development into climate resilient city planning.
Dr. Gaby S. Langendijk is a climate scientist at Deltares, specialising in cities under climate change. Dr. Langendijk’s research is centred around the impacts of climate change on urban areas and developing adaptation strategies and climate services to enhance resilience. Previously Gaby worked at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), an institute of Helmholtz in Hamburg, Germany. Here she conducted research as a Postdoc for 1,5 years as well as obtained her PhD. Her main research focus at GERICS was on developing climate information for cities using regional climate model data, as well as on climate and weather extremes, their impacts, and how to increase resilience through integrated, co-developed services, particularly focused on climate impacts and risks in urban areas. Before Dr. Langendijk’s time at GERICS, she worked at the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), under the UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), in Geneva, Switzerland. At WCRP, her central focus areas were climate science for cities, climate modelling, the carbon cycle, as well as connecting climate science with the global policy-making context.
Currently, she is also internationally active as part of the Scientific Steering Committee of the WCRP Lighthouse Activity “My Climate Risk”, and as one of the co-coordinators of the WCRP CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study URB-RCC, a global project focusing on cities and climate change.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101036599.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101036599.
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Short summary: A story about Jan and Maria during extreme precipitation.
Theme: Flooding
End user: Citizens