Towards a leading role on climate services in Europe: A research and innovation roadmap

Street, Roger

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2015.12.001

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“…In some cases, however, risk managers deal with probabilities and uncertainties, and have learned how to integrate uncertain climate information in their decision process. As stated by Street [], “the task of climate services is to transform climate‐related data into customized products, to advise on best practices, and to develop and evaluate solutions that may be of use for society.” Uncertainties in climate projections/predictions and therefore in climate information result from uncertainties due to (1) future greenhouse gas emissions, (2) the climate response to radiative forcing (model spread), (3) natural variability in the climate system, and (4) initial conditions used to initialize climate predictions [ Kirtman et al ., ; Bowyer et al ., ]. The importance of the different sources of uncertainties varies with the timescale under consideration and the variable to be examined.…”

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Climate services: Lessons learned and future prospects

2016

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This perspective paper reviews progress made in the last decades to enhance the communication and use of climate information relevant to the political and economic decision process. It focuses, specifically, on the creation and development of climate services, and highlights a number of difficulties that have limited the success of these services. Among them are the insufficient awareness by societal actors of their vulnerability to climate change, the lack of relevant products and services offered by the scientific community, the inappropriate format in which the information is provided, and the inadequate business model adopted by climate services. The authors suggest that, to be effective, centers should host within the same center a diversity of staff including experts in climate science, specialists in impact, adaptation, and vulnerability, representatives of the corporate world, agents of the public service as well as social managers and communication specialists. The role and importance of environmental engineering is emphasized.

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Climate services: Lessons learned and future prospects

2016

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“…The need for this interaction reposes on the importance of understanding how scientific knowledge is applied and used in policy and decision-making contexts (Lemos, 2015). Since large amounts of potentially useful CWH information is currently unused (Lemos et al, 2012;Street, 2015), it is clear that an improved information availability does not automatically lead to a better resilience management.…”

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Three Ways Forward to Improve Regional Information for Extreme Events: An Early Career Perspective

Langendijk

Aubry‐Wake

Osman

et al. 2019

Front. Environ. Sci.

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This paper provides an early career researchers (ECRs) perspective on major challenges and opportunities that arise in the study and understanding of, and the provision of regional information for Climate, Weather and Hydrological (CWH) extreme events. This perspective emerged from the discussions of the early career 3-day Young Earth System Scientists-Young Hydrologic Society (YESS-YHS) workshop, which was conjointly held with the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Open Science Conference. In this paper we discuss three possible ways forward in the field: a stronger interaction between Earth system scientists and users, a collaborative modeling approach between the different modeling communities, and an increased use of unconventional data sources in scientific studies. This paper also demonstrates the important role of ECRs in embracing the above outlined pathways and addressing the long-standing challenges in the field. YESS and YHS networks encourage the global community to support and strengthen their involvement with ECR communities to advance the field of interdisciplinary Earth system science in the upcoming years to decades.

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“…These resources are often constructed by research centres, whether independent or within universities or national meteorological services. They are for the most part representative of Bsupply-driven^models of information delivery (Street 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%