Developing and Valuing Climate Services and Information Services: Case Studies

• Main Authors: Dale, Thomas, Miller, Raeanne, Vangsbo, Peter, Mettiäinen, Ilona, Ballester, Joan, Kolstad, Erik, Payne, Mark, Stephen, Kathrin, Valeeva, Vilena, Gabriel, Johannes, Nikitina, Elena, Bearzotti, Chiara, Aarnes, Oivin, King, Martin
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: climate services; human health; economic growth; climate variability; extreme weathers; modelling tools; forecasting tools; Arctic; climate predictions; Arctic warming; climate change; forecast accuracy; sub-seasonal to decadal scales; hazardous conditions; climatic extremes; climate resilience; Paris Agreement; Climate change; Human health
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1407834

Updated version: September 2018 Why Blue-Action? Faced with a changing climate, businesses, policy makers and local communities need to access reliable weather and climate information to safeguard human health, well-being, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. However, important changes in climate variability and extreme weather events are difficult to pinpoint and account for in existing modelling and forecasting tools. Moreover, many changes in the global climate are linked to the Arctic, where climate change is occurring rapidly, making weather and climate predictions a considerable challenge. Blue-Action is evaluating the >>. read more in the text of the publication