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To this regard, climate services do not only create user-relevant climate information, but also stimulate the need to quantify vulnerabilities and come up with appropriate adaptation solutions that can be applied in practice.
The operational generation, management and delivery of climate services poses a number of new challenges to the traditional way of accessing and distributing climate data. With a growing private sector playing the role of service provider is important to understand what are the roles and the responsibilities of the publicly funded provision of climate data and information and services.
This session aims to gather best practices and lessons learnt, for how climate services can successfully facilitate adaptation to climate variability and change by providing climate information that is tailored to the real user need.
Contributions are strongly encouraged from international efforts (GFCS, CSP, …); European Initiatives (HE, ERA4CS, C3S, ClimatEurope, ECRA, JPI-Climate…) as well as national, regional and local experiences.
Droughts in the Pacific Islands can be extremely severe, causing drinking water shortages, extensive crop damage, and increases in the size, severity, and extent of wildfires that burn incredibly large percentages of island land areas. A recent analysis of historical drought in Hawai‘i found that drought duration, magnitude, and frequency have all increased significantly, consistent with trends found in other Pacific Islands. While land managers are tasked with utilizing the “best available science”, they often are confronted with data products that are difficult to access and there is no facilitated communication process with researchers to meet the needs of resource managers.
The Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange (PDKE) was established in 2019 to facilitate drought knowledge exchange and enable collaborative relationships among drought stakeholders in Hawai‘i and in Pacific Island Nations and territories. We use an iterative approach to co-produce site-specific, customized drought data and products based on the needs of our partners, including factsheets and decision support tools. Through active engagement between researchers and end users, we strive to make drought and climate data products more accessible to managers for drought planning and management.
Since the pilot phase in 2019, the PDKE has expanded to work with over 130 partners across Hawai‘i and Guam, and has begun building relationships in other Pacific Islands. The PDKE has worked with partners across various sectors, including natural resource management, water resource management, and ranching. The PDKE is governed by a stewardship team and regularly seeks input from an advisory council and steering committee through quarterly and annual meetings. The PDKE has co-developed numerous products, including site-specific climate portfolios and a decision support dashboard for ranchers. PDKE output products have been used by partners in various capacities, including in funding proposals, climate change education, and management activity planning. The PDKE can serve as a model for how a successful knowledge exchange process can improve drought management and planning.
How to cite: Frazier, A., Longman, R., Giardina, C., Ford, D., Heu, C., Yomai, H., and McGuigan, A.: Partnering for Resilience: The Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-7424, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-7424, 2025.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which is fully funded by the European Union and implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECWMF), has traditionally provided authoritative information about the past, present, and future climate through datasets, tools, and applications. The service facilitates the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies for society in the face of climate change.
C3S has been consolidated as one of the most relevant providers of climate data and information both in Europe and globally. Its implementation has evolved contemporaneously with the evolution of the climate services arena. C3S has historically prioritized user requirements in shaping sectoral datasets and information delivered by the service. In recent years, however, it has taken additional measures to advance this commitment. These efforts include the development of customized climate datasets in partnership with core users. These users utilize and amplify the climate information supplied by C3S and disseminate it further through their own organizations and partners. This initiative involves prominent European institutions, such as the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), which plays an outstanding role in operating and securing the European electricity system and market integrations.
In the context of Europe's energy transition towards a more environmental-friendly electricity supply system, the power sector is increasingly vulnerable to weather and climate variability. This heightened exposure underscores the need for collaborative efforts among climate and energy experts to develop information at the European level. In this context, the present contribution aims to illustrate the process of co-development undertaken by C3S and ENTSO-E for the preparation of the latest Pan-European Climate Database (PECD) version, that encompass both climate and energy data, considering for the first time, future climate projections. PECD is a dataset that has underpinned most studies conducted by TSOs ever since and plays an important role for the resilience of energy systems and optimization of their performance in response to climate change. In this contribution we will delve into the TSO's needs, engagement, and co-development process up to the final PECDv4.2 dataset, which is readily available at the Copernicus Climate Data Store, as well as the evolution towards the new version. This co-development has combined both academic and grid operators' needs and resulted in a dataset that is fit for research and industry alike. The contribution will highlight the lessons learned in the process, the features accomplished, and the remaining gaps.
How to cite: Gonzalez-Reviriego, N., Aldrigo, G., Amaro e Silva, R., Buontempo, C., Cagnazzo, C., Cordeddu, S., Dubus, L., Kanellas, P., Koivisto, M. J., Lusito, L., Restivo, E., Saint-Drenan, Y.-M., Stoop, L., Troccoli, A., Zanacchi, M., Zaramella, M., and Zuiker, A.: Advancing C3S Energy Services in support to Europe’s energy transition: co-development of the Pan-European Climate Database with ENTSO-E., EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-19306, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-19306, 2025.
This study contributes an accessible, comprehensive database of interpolated climate data for Europe that includes monthly, annual, decadal, and 30-year normal climate data for the last approximately 120 years (1901 to present) as well as multi-model CMIP6 climate change projections for the 21st century. The database includes variables relevant for ecological research and infrastructure planning, and comprises more than 25,000 climate grids that can be queried with a provided ClimateEU software package to extract time series for lists of sample locations, or custom grids for specific study areas at any resolution and projection. In addition, continent-wide 1km resolution gridded data are available for download (http://tinyurl.com/ClimateEU). The climate grids were developed with a three-step approach, using thin-plate spline interpolations of weather station data as a first approximation (replacing otherwise needed lengthy pre-training of the neural network). Subsequently, a novel deep learning approach is used to model orographic precipitation, rain shadows, lake and coastal effects at moderate resolution (2.5 arcmin). Lastly, lapse-rate based downscaling is applied to generate high-resolution grids (up to a useful resolution of 250 m in mountenous terrain). The climate estimates were optimized and cross-validated with a checkerboard approach to ensure that training data was spatially distanced from validation data. We conclude with a discussion of applications and limitations of this database.
How to cite: Hamann, A., Namiiro, S., and Wang, T.: ClimateEU: A high-resolution database of historical and future climate for Europe developed with deep neural networks, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-7022, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-7022, 2025.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conducts plant pest risk assessment (PRA) under the mandate of the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Member States. The analysis of pest climate suitability in the EU is a key element of PRA, and it is based on multiple layers of analysis, spanning from the evaluation of the presence of suitable hosts in the area under assessment to the analysis of climate suitability for the pest. We present the ongoing EFSA SEED project (Spatially Explicit Environmental Data) for climate suitability analysis to support EFSA staff, experts and contractors.
The SEED project will release operational cloud-based, user-friendly, digital services to support climate suitability analysis. It will release tools to develop climate suitability maps based on agro-climatic indicators, and on process-based and species distribution models.
Key objectives of the project are improving analysis capability, quality and speed of assessments, ensuring traceability and reproducibility of results, and removing the technical barriers inherent the use of geospatial data (GIS software and/or coding). The combination of state-of-art cloud technologies and science-based products are being developed in the EFSA cloud environment leveraging on the Databricks platform to allow and enhance “citizen development”, hence fostering collaboration with the external scientific experts supporting EFSA. The tools are under development and are aimed to support EFSA scientists, experts, working groups on the development of the PRAs, but will also be freely available to external institutions, and experts working with maps based on agrometeorological indicators.
How to cite: Maiorano, A., Abelli, G., Bajocco, S., Bregaglio, S. U. M., Ceccotto, R., Costa, G. F., Guidotti, D., Monguidi, M., Poggi, G. M., and Volpi, I.: Rethinking EFSA pest risk assessment from the SEED: the next generation tools for climate suitability analysis, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-16279, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-16279, 2025.
The increasing availability of reliable climate-change information at the regional scales is prompting an ever-growing demand for impact and risk indicators suitable for policy planning and implementation. As highlighted in IPCC AR6, the latter also benefit from the recent advances in attribution and sectoral vulnerability studies, which now enable to identify the most relevant climatic variables and to investigate their past and future trends, characterizing the response of both environmental and socio-economic systems to climate-induced stress. Climate services aim to complement and combine up-to-date scientific knowledge and bottom-up contributions, including stakeholder needs, interests and expectations, to deliver user-oriented information and enhance awareness, preparedness, risk reduction and recovery strategies. Recognizing that climate-proofing our societies cannot be further postponed, the IPCC proposed a synergistic “Climatic Impact-Driver (CID) Framework” as a tool to preliminarily foster and feed physical climate science applications whenever specific information is lacking on the context where climate-change-induced phenomena can emerge as hazardous, beneficial, or inconsequential. Within the generic category of “impact-drivers” (e.g., climate change, population growth, viral outbreaks, technological change, social conflict), IPCC AR6 defined CIDS as “physical climate system conditions (e.g., means, events, and extremes) that affect an element of society or ecosystems”, the extent of their impact depending on system tolerance across interacting elements and regions. Despite their being based on characteristics (intensity, frequency, duration, timing, and spatial extent) that solely depend on complex, scale-spanning physical processes, CIDs are designed to represent the perspective of the affected system or sectoral asset and to provide stakeholders with a more exhaustive and purposeful reckoning of changing, potentially threatening climate conditions. Such an approach allows to evaluate potential impacts and to inter-compare regions, helping prioritize adaptation strategies, while maintaining climate information neutrality until more complex, intrinsically local, risk assessments are conducted, hazard and system specific thresholds defined, and decision-making processes brought into being.
There is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that current climate in many regions of the Earth has already changed with respect to the early or mid-20th century and that climate change has already critically altered CID characteristics, shifting the magnitude, frequency, duration, seasonality and spatial extent of their associated impact indices and indicators. In particular, the Mediterranean basin is experiencing significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which can affect vital economic and environmental sectors in the surrounding countries. Here, the need for systematic and inter-comparable assessments of the expected impacts is particularly urgent, and action prioritization calls for progressively zooming analyses across regional and local scales and across multiple hazards, ideally accounting for interactions and superpositions between both CIDs and sectors, as well as for sector tolerance thresholds. In this context, we present temperature and precipitation related CID indicators at the NUTS-1, NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 aggregation levels, derived from new high-resolution (5 km) climate projections over the Italian peninsula, for both present climate and future scenarios (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5), as obtained by downscaling the corresponding global ERA5 and MPI-ESM1-2-HR driven CMIP6 experiments.
How to cite: Pisacane, G., Struglia, M. V., Pichelli, E., Anav, A., Antonelli, M., Calmanti, S., Catalano, F., and Dell'Aquila, A.: Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and Risk Assessment in the Mediterranean area: a climatic impact-driver (CID) framework. , EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-15652, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-15652, 2025.
Climate change-induced disease occurrences are one of the major factors that affect sustainable rice production across the globe. The adoption and use of tailored climate information services (CIS) through mobile applications can assist farmers by providing actionable information for climate-smart disease management. This study assesses the impacts of using tailored CIS on farmers’ pesticide usage and income benefits and suggests design principles for co-producing the service regarding rice disease forecasts and management in coastal Bangladesh. The experiment followed a participatory approach for co-producing tailored CIS to provide farmers with rice disease forecast and management information for better decision-making. The access, understanding, and use of the DROP app and associated capacity-building training greatly assist farmers in managing diseases in advance. Results show that 77% of the farmers found that using this agrometeorological service helped them improve their understanding of pesticide application, timeliness on when to spray, maintaining pesticide dose, and decreased farmers’ frequency and purchase of pesticides. The majority of them (89%) also mentioned that understanding and uptake of disease forecast, and management information also benefits farmers by minimizing pesticide usage, and cost and thereby increasing crop yields due to on-time application of pesticides with other agricultural activities such as applying fertilizer and irrigation considering weather conditions. Furthermore, this study recommends design principles for co-producing tailored CIS for similar regions across the globe where smallholder farmers face similar issues such as climate-induced disease occurrence and rice yield reduction. The development of CIS to forecast and manage diseases using ICT media required strong collaboration among farmers, agricultural extension officers, meteorologists, plant pathologists, and ICT specialists. Capacity-building training is crucial for farmers which helps them improve climate knowledge, and ability to apply CIS in decision-making, enabling farmers to follow climate-smart disease management techniques. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) should come forward to disseminate and adopt the service among other farmers in the country for sustainable rice production and make them more resilient to the changing climate.
How to cite: Mousumi, M. A.: Impacts of Tailored Climate Information Services on Pesticide Usage and Farmers’ Income in Relation to Rice Disease Management in Coastal Bangladesh, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-1296, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-1296, 2025.
In the face of rising or falling sea levels, adaptation is unavoidable. However, the extent of the action required depends on the scale of this rise or drop, determined to within a few centimetres that people and stakeholders will have to cope with. To determine adaptation strategies, stakeholders need climate services. However, scientific information does not always coincide with users’ needs. As part of the PROTECT European programme, we focus on users’ needs in four countries: France, the Netherlands, the Maldives and Greenland. We present the context of each country, as well as the partners with whom we work in each of these countries: the Conservatoire du littoral (France), the Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands), the Ministry of Environment (Maldives) and ASIAQ (Greenland). Based on more than thirty interviews and several workshops, we present results concerning the need for sea-level rise scenarios. We assess the extent to which the produced services meet the needs and realities of users. We note that territorial realities and the decision-making context have a strong influence on the type of needs of adaptation stakeholders. The Conservatoire du littoral favours a 'soft' approach on land with predominantly agricultural or nature conservation issues, associated with a medium-term vision, thus moving towards probabilistic scenarios. The Rijkswaterstaat, which manages areas with a high population density and strong socio-economic issues needs for their sea defence large and complex infrastructure like storm surge barriers or dams. For this purpose, they have a marked demand for long-term scenarios (100 years), a low tolerance of uncertainty and a need for higher scenarios. The Maldives sees sea rise as a major challenge and requests precise short- and medium-term scenarios, as well as data and tools enabling to measure coastal vulnerability and put in place adaptation measures, such as raising or creating islands. Finally, sea level rise is not a major concern for Greenland: other more pressing issues are caused by climate change. The local culture makes it more difficult for stakeholders to project themselves into the future, favouring a short-term approach and probabilistic scenarios. The needs for climate services also depends on the stakeholder’s level of expertise. Overall, we finally observe a request for integrated climate services, taking adaptation choices and social data into account.
How to cite: Philippenko, X., Le Bars, D., Völz, V., Le Cozannet, G., Hinkel, J., Nicholls, R., Hammann, A., Langley, K., Privat, A., Vos, R., and Waheed, A.: Sea level change and adaptation: linking climate services needs and territorial realities (France, Netherlands, Maldives, Greenland), EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-19610, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-19610, 2025.
Ireland’s National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS), established in 2022, facilitates collaboration between climate information providers and users to deliver user-driven climate services. It promotes knowledge exchange, integrates robust scientific advances, and supports Ireland’s climate resilience efforts by signposting relevant climate information and promoting existing tools to avoid duplication of effort.
It is built on the outputs from across the climate services community, including the TRANSLATE project which provides standardised bias-corrected climate change projections for Ireland. The TRANSLATE program was the seed that led to the formation of this permanent national framework.
The establishment of an NFCS in Ireland followed a low-risk, high-impact, “project-first” approach to understand the national relevance and appetite for a coordinated approach to climate services. Rather than begin with an NFCS, and be unsure of its interest or value, this “project-first” approach allowed Met Éireann, (the national met service in Ireland), to identify relevant stakeholders, evaluate engagement and discover potential problems. As projects are time bound, this was a low-risk method of determining appetite for a more permanent national solution to provision and sharing of climate information.
Here we describe an “all-of-government” approach to building permanent mechanisms and structures for developing and maintaining sustainable and scalable climate services and partnerships across the science-policy-user interface by establishing an inclusive NFCS. We explore the successes, challenges, barriers and lessons learned in forming and operationalising of an NFCS in Ireland, offering insights for climate service providers internationally.
By the end of 2024, (the first year of an operational NFCS), some notable achievements include:
- The NFCS has hosted two national forums, the first to identify NFCS priorities, and the second on addressing uncertainty in climate information.
- NFCS Annual Forum: Spanning two days for producers and users, it highlighted key directions for the NFCS for the coming years. It also highlighted the key role the NFCS can play in in supporting and facilitating knowledge transfer and learning across the community.
- NFCS National Forum: Handling uncertainty in climate information.
- A permanent identity has been established through a dedicated webpage, branding, an operational online help desk and a quarterly newsletter.
- Thematic hubs have been created, pulling together relevant data, services and communications from across the climate services community.
- It has supported and facilitated the development of key national climate change programs. These include the National Adaptation Framework, the National Climate Change Risk Assessment and sectoral adaptation plans.
- Ireland’s NFCS was featured in the WMO’s 2024 State of Climate Services report as a case study, showcasing its impact across sectors like the built environment, transport, water, and agriculture.
How to cite: Scannell, C., Flattery, P., Delmar, J., Duffy, C., Griffin, S., and Lambkin, K.: Operationalising a National Framework for Climate Services in Ireland, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-2566, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-2566, 2025.
Since the launch of the UK Climate Projections (UKCP) in 2018, the UK Met Office has continually updated the underlying climate model datasets and operated a supported climate service on behalf of the UK government. In addition to providing technical support for its datasets, the UKCP Climate Service monitors the evolving user need, supports activities to enable knowledge sharing, improve understanding and co-design additional services. This work has resulted in the release of new datasets, reports and user guidance as well as a community-contributed monthly webinar series led by the co-chairs of its user group, the Development and Knowledge Sharing network. In 2023, a user consultation process was conducted and has revealed data needs that are not satisfied by the current UKCP18 corpus of information. As the UK Met Office assesses how to meet these data needs through new scientific capabilities and services, understanding their impact on climate action and their priority is of great importance.
New climate service design often focuses on the delivery system, leaving much of the user requirements defined in terms of climate variables, uncertainty, scenarios, data formats and visualisations. This can lead to misinterpretation by producers of the need and users of the most appropriate scientific tools available. We present the application of service blueprinting, which allows the explicit co-design between producers and users of a climate service which is outcome focused, i.e. it outlines the steps on how new information provision can potentially affect user actions. We will show draft blueprints co-designed with industry partners through interviews and focus group sessions, addressing user needs for information on extreme events, ocean chemistry, uncertainty and hydrological variables. The blueprints provide a holistic view of the whole climate service production process, starting at the potential outcome and working through the steps to information delivery and formats, data processing and interpretation as well as climate model simulation requirements. The blueprints offer a shared understanding for all stakeholders of the climate service.
How to cite: Woods, L., Pope, J., Fung, F., and Mittal, N.: Blueprinting for collaborative climate service design, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-8948, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-8948, 2025.
The DAS core service “Climate and Water” provides monitoring and projection data to evaluate requirements for climate change adaptation, which were defined through the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie - DAS).
Sea level rise (SLR) is an inevitable consequence of climate change and leads to an increased risk of flooding, erosion, and infrastructure damage in low-lying and vulnerable areas. This increase will therefore require adaptive strategies for mitigation along the coasts.
To support adaptation efforts, we provide high-resolution projections of relative sea level change, optimized specifically for the Northern European Coastal Region (‘DASNordicSLR’).
Most drivers of sea level change operate on a continental or global scale, but vertical land motion is a regional phenomenon — especially significant in northern Europe — driven by glacial isostatic adjustment and localized geological processes.
The sea level projections from IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) were therefore optimized for this specific region by changing the vertical land motion component to an elevation model created for Fennoscandia by the Nordic Geodetic commission (NKG).
A subset of these SLR projections for only the German North and Baltic Seas is available via the “DAS Climate Data Coast” application (https://das.bsh.de). Additionally, projections for multiple oceanographic variables, such as sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity or extreme water levels, based on a small ensemble of regional ocean climate simulations are presented and can be easily visualised for the entire area and multiple stations along the coast.
How to cite: Jensen, C., Kruschke, T., Janssen, F., Ditzinger, G., Moeller, J., Lorkowski, I., Meyer, J., Ehlers, B.-M., Duesterhoeft-Wriggers, W., and Brauch, J.: Climate information tailored for the German coast provided by the DAS core service – the example of regional sea level projections, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-13112, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-13112, 2025.
Climate change presents significant challenges to coastal tourism, making adaptation essential to ensure resilience and sustainability. This study, conducted as part of the IMPETUS project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program, focuses on fostering climate-resilient tourism along the Catalan coast by transforming climate data into actionable information to support informed decision-making. Although tourism is not a priority sector under the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), its dependency on climate variability and change highlights the urgent need for locally focused adaptation measures.
Using a participatory co-creation process with local stakeholders, we developed tailored climate indicators to assess the climate potential for tourism activities. Our work included identifying relevant datasets, computing robust indicators, and presenting the results through a user-friendly visualization tool. This tool empowers stakeholders to evaluate local climate risks and opportunities, enabling adaptive decision-making that aligns with regional needs and sector-specific challenges.
This study underscores the critical importance of addressing climate adaptation at a local scale, where the impacts of climate change are most directly felt and actionable solutions can be implemented effectively. It highlights how co-designed, user-oriented climate services can bridge gaps in global frameworks like the GFCS, offering scalable methodologies for climate-sensitive sectors such as tourism. By providing tools to integrate localized adaptation into planning, our work supports building resilient, sustainable tourism systems capable of navigating the complexities of a changing climate.
How to cite: Boqué-Ciurana, A., Céster Lozano, I., Vasileiou, A., Dermitzakis, E., Nikoloudis, C., and Aguilar, E.: Developing a Climate Resilience Tool for Coastal Tourism: Local Adaptation on the Catalan Coast , EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-9114, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-9114, 2025.
REACHOUT (Home - Reachout) is a H2020 research and innovation project aimed at ‘bridging the last mile in climate service delivery’ by developing user-oriented climate services. It responds to a call, issued by the EC as part of the Green Deal to enhance climate-service uptake across Europe.
A suite of 18 existing and new tools has been compiled into a web-based toolkit (triple-a-toolkit.eu, Triple-A Toolkit - Reachout). In addition to analysis tools for vulnerability and risks, it consists of tools that support adaptation action and as a new element also tools that support the setting of ambition for adaptation and urban resilience. Hence, a ‘Triple-A’ approach (Analysis; Ambition; and Action) was established, supported by climate service tools. The ambition setting step was added to shift the lens of from prevention of risks, often leading to incremental adaptation, to promotion of positive change, allowing better for transformational adaptation. It is defined as a policy process that entails developing visions coupled with identifying goals and actions working towards the visions.
The triple-A toolkit covers tools for heat and different flood hazards, social vulnerability, tools for identifying opportunities for adaptation, selecting appropriate options, designing pathways and several ‘soft tools’ to build capacity for adaptation. Some of them build upon the EU-climate service infrastructure, such as Copernicus. For most of them additional local data are needed. To improve the uptake of the services municipalities, climate service providers and scientists were brought together in seven city hubs that served as living labs to co-develop and test a set of improved services in three consecutive development cycles.
The toolkit is accessible for resilience officers, urban planners, consultants world-wide in a user friendly manner. The use of combinations of different tools, covering analysis, ambition setting and action planning for different adaptation policy questions has been presented in 6 demonstrators: i) support dealing with floods in a fast growing city; ii) facing the heat in large cities; iii) Prioritizing locations to implement nature-based solutions; iv) approaches cities can use which are in their early stages of adaptation; v) How can just and resilient urban development be combined?; and vi) Climate risk assessments for institutional and real estate investors across Europe. Each demonstrator shows how tools and climate data can be applied to support these questions and presents lessons from the city hubs Amsterdam, Cork, Logrono, Gdynia, Lillestrom, Milan and Athens.
The presentation will introduce the project legacy and share main lessons from the project with respect to climate service development and deployment for further discussion. In brief we find that to effectively reach the "last mile" of climate services, we must work from both ends: a top-down approach driven by EU-level data infrastructure, and a bottom-up approach based on local and national data provision. The brokerage function (experts) is key in this process as well as the maturity of the cities capacity to utilize the outcomes of the climate services. Not only the services itself asks for co-development but also the triple-A process that they ought to support.
How to cite: Jeuken, A., Langendijk, G., and Goosen, H.: Lessons learnt from triple-A climate services co-development and applications in 7 European cities, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-19158, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-19158, 2025.
