Upgrade of a climate service tailored to water reservoirs management

• Published in: Climate Services
• Main Authors: Sánchez García, Eroteida, Abia Llera, Inmaculada, Domínguez Alonso, Marta, Voces Aboy, José, Sánchez Perrino, Juan Carlos, Navascués, Beatriz, Rodríguez Camino, Ernesto, Garrido del Pozo, Nieves, García, M. C., Pastor Guzman, Francisco, Dimas, Mirta, Barranco, Luis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Reservoir management; Hydrological hazard; Seasonal prediction; NAO; Climate service; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11765/13440

We present the upgrade of a web tool designed to help in the decision making process for water reservoirs management in Spain. The tool, called S-ClimWaRe (Seasonal Climate predictions in support of Water Reservoirs management), covers the extended winter season (from November to March), when the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern strongly influences the hydrological interannual variability in South-Western Europe. This climate service is fully user driven, and aims at meeting their requirements incorporating recent scientific progress. The research leading to these results has received funding from the MEDSCOPE project co-funded by the European Commission as part of ERA4CS, an ERA-NET initiated by JPI Climate, grant agreement 690462.