Just published: "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation", with @ggioli
#openaccess
https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251409982 in @envplane

The paper explores how #ClimateServices shape #ClimateAdaptation through depoliticization, financialization, and experimentation — builds on research with https://www.digitalclimatefutures.org.uk funded by Leverhulme Trust

#climateJustice #digitalgeographies #PoliticalEcology

OnlineFirst - "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation" by @ggioli and @GioBettini:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251409982

#ClimateAdaptation
#PoliticalEcology
#ClimateJustice
#DataColonialism
#DigitalGeographies
#ClimateServices
#SmartAdaptation

Discover the stories behind the EU funded I-CISK Project's Living Labs!
New videos showcase the human-centred climate services across Europe and Africa.

👉 https://52north.org/news/i-cisks-human-centred-climate-services/

#CCA, #DRM, #climateservices #codesign

My colleague Lea Poropat is talking about how we integrate this data into the Danish climate atlas... How do we get to #ClimateServices in the atlas, based on IPCC, local understanding and storm surges.. #NCKF25

Interested in learining how to design and adapt climate services according to societal needs? Check out the new open online course on co-creation of human-centered Climate Services!

👉 Enroll now! https://icisk.eu/ihe-delft-launches-open-online-course-on-co-creation-of-human-centred-climate-services/
#ClimateServices #climatechange #codesign #CoCreation

Our new paper, led by Kelli Archie, is out, where we engaged 144 U.S. heat practitioners about their climate service needs. We find the two most impactful "needs" are regularly updated local-scale extreme heat data and more information on heat impacts across systems. We also found rural practitioners were less likely to report information needs as being impactful than urban respondents, building more evidence about the urban-rural gap in heat resilience practice.

Full open-access paper at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880725000676 #extremeheat #heatresilience #climateservices

📣 ECCA 2025 wrap up - three successful days, during which 52°North and partners demonstrated climate services (in I-CISK project) and work on disaster risk management (in DIRECTED project).
👉 https://blog.52north.org/2025/07/08/enabling-climate-change-adaptation-showcasing-innovative-tools-at-ecca-2025/

#ICISK #ECCA2025 #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateServices #CoCreation #LivingLabs #datafabric #DIRECTED #DRM #CCA

We are super busy at the #ECCA2025 today!
Learn more about co-design of climate services (I-CISK project) at 11:00 in the Porto Room, how the Data Fabric (DIRECTED project) works at 16:30 in the Marina Room, and/or join the I-CISK project's special session at 16:00 in the Faro Room!

#climateservices, #DRM, #CCA, #datafabric #codesign

Anticipation rises for next week’s ECCA! The preparations are well underway.
✔️ Poster
✔️ Video
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Visit the #DIRECTED booth to see our DIRECTED Data Fabric in action. In addition, join us at the collaborative booth featuring I-CISK Human Centred Climate Services and its related initiatives, where we'll be showcasing further #climateservices.
#ECCA2025 #drm #cca

👉 Check out the latest newsletter and discover what the I-CISK consortium members have been up to; for example, providing a new version of the climates services for the project's living labs.
https://52north.org/news/i-cisk-newsletter-issue-7/
#climateservices #codesign

The Future of the Climate is Now?!
Find out how the DIRECTED and I-CISK projects support user-centered climate solutions in our ever-changing world.
https://blog.52north.org/2025/06/02/the-future-of-the-climate-is-now/
#riskmitigation #climatechange #opensource #climateservices #DIRECTED #ICISK

Also interesting to note is that this dry spell doesn't seem as remarkable if you use a rainfall threshold of 0.1 mm/day, which KNMI tends to use sometimes. Because there were some days in March with small amounts of rainfall (always less than 1 mm/day), the largest number of consecutive dry days using a 0.1 mm/day threshold so far this year is only 13 days.

The drought, of course, is very real and impacts have been felt in the last few weeks (for example a large number of wildfires). This shows that one single indicator may not always capture the intensity of a weather phenomenon.
#climatechange #climateservices

I just discovered that the Bureau of Meteorology are "improving some of the climate website services".
Sounds good. Tell me more!

"The Bureau will no longer:
- issue fortnightly Climate Driver Update details
- publish Climate Model Summary charts and data
- issue El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Outlook Watch and Alert statements including the ENSO dial.
"

Um. OK. This must be some new meaning of the word "improvement" of which I wasn't previously aware.

#RantOver
#BoM #BureauOfMeteorolgy #TheBureau #climateServices #rant #sigh #fadeToGrey

This post is in response to a thread posted on blue sky* by Jeremy Bassis and a discussion between Felicity mcCormack and Gavin Schmidt. All these people are well-respected climate scientists and the original thread was posted as a result of a Nature piece about operationalising climate models (and sea level rise), like we forecast the weather. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while too, as sea level rise is an undeniable existential threat to my home country…

Anyway, I replied with a link to the Danish Climate Atlas – which to my mind is very much a model for how climate information should be done. I can’t give a full overview of the Climate Atlas, largely because it’s not my story to tell, but as Jeremy asked me to talk more in depth about it, and given the 300 character limit, I thought I’d formulate a few thoughts here first before sharing…

The climate atlas is not a book but a web frontpage that allows anyone with an internet connection to get high quality climate information at a local scale in Denmark. The map interface makes it easy and intuitive to use, and for detail a whole bunch of reports and datasets in different formats can be downloaded (everything from ASCII to GIS to netcdf). You can explore it here. All the data is given on a kommune (local authority) level except for sea level rise data which is divided up by coastal stretches.

For audiences that just want a quick message there are these easy to interpret icons with a key message below, like this one about higher water levels.

I was involved in the early stages and to my mind there are 4 crucial elements that have made it very successful:

1. Legal Requirement: Every local authority (a kommune, don’t think hippies, think regional councils) in Denmark has a legal obligation to make climate adaptation plans and to keep them updated. This element is important as it created awareness of the problem and effects of climate change and the necessity of investigating adaptation options. The initial plans were rather patchy and not very consistent with each other. Many regions had employed a consultant who was also maybe not an expert. Several kommune ended up with data based on CMIP resolution data! Hardly appropriate for a small local region in Denmark (which is barely resolved in most global climate models).
2. Data Foundation: At the same time we have been dynamically downscaling these simulations for decades, to provide really high quality locally bias corrected data (using also DMI’s long climatological time series to understand if and where biases exist). Colleagues at DMI identified a need to provide this in an easy to use format to everyone in the country. We had long ago discovered that working with motivated kommune employees led to a really good outcome: readable climate variables that are meaningful to an individual city, data formats that can be used by non-scienists (who definitely can’t deal with netCDFs).
3. Funding: Doing a data project properly requires money. The Climate Atlas is, compared to the cost of not doing anything, extremely cheap, nonetheless, it still costs something. Ear marked funding from the danish state to build up the Climate Atlas from the ground, to develop it as new needs are identified and to improve both communication and presentation has been crucial. Along the way several different needs have arisen (droughts, deep uncertainty in sea level rise), a new version will hopefully be coming soon.
4. Intense engagement: Probably the most crucial aspect to getting the climate atlas off the ground and into use has been communication over and over and over again. Not just initially with kommune to find out what they need (building on many years of background experience first), but also reaching out to special interest groups raning from local farmers in mid-west Jylland to sewage engineers, high school teachers and property developers. This continues, but has undeniably been helped by Denmark’s open trusting society and generous tradition of cultural meetings, continuing education and festivals.

The climate atlas in Denmark is the example I know best, we should be rightly proud of the team that constructed, maintain and continue to develop it. Other countries certainly have similar products in the Nordic and Blatic countries, and likely elsewhere, a network meets annually within the region to discuss developments etc. After a coincidental meeting, DMI was also invited to help develop one for Ghana, which is ongoing, and of course, will have completely different needs and requirements, However, the decision early one to base the back end of the Climate Atlas on open tools: python, cdo, github and CORDEX simulations, makes a lot of the learnings transferable.

If you want to know more, contact my colleagues at the Klima Atlas! I’m happy to put you in touch..

*As an aside, it’s interesting how many of the climate science and policy community have moved over to Blue Sky. It was rather quiet for a while but activity seems to have picked up. I’m not abandoning mastodon, which I actually prefer, but I’m happy to see an alternative to what has become known as Birdchan. I’d urge you to try it if you’re interested in a social media presence in a slightly more appealing environment. There are a number of handy tools, including fedica, that allow you to crosspost to multiple channels at the same time (including X, mastodon, bsky, TikTok and threads) and I’m also using the OpenVibe app, which has a common timeline from multiple platforms.

https://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a-climate-atlas-is-discovered/

#climate #climateAdaptation #climateChange #climateServices #DMI

The latest I-CISK Project newsletter is available! Check out what the consortium has been up to in the past half year: empowering climate resilience, adapting to #climatechange and understanding drought managment in the living labs!
https://52north.org/news/i-cisk-newsletter-5/
#climateservices

Want to find out more about co-design and Climate Services? Julia Kraatz explains our general approach to co-designing preoperational Climate Services in the #ICISK project. Today @ 17:50, ESSI2.8 | Room G2 @EuroGeosciences #codesign #climateservices #EGU24

RT by @EUtoAU: #AUEU #ClimateServices

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/EricHS_H/status/1731569968569802782#m

[2023-12-04 07:03 UTC]

Within #IMPETUSProject, #T6Ecosystems has refined and improved the #ImpactAssessment methodology. To assess the difference a #CitizenScience project makes, T6 look at 5 impact areas articulated in +25 dimensions; moreover considering the impact of project on #SDGs. This methodology is specifically for #CitizenScienceProjects, but T6 developed others for different sectors e.g. #SocialInnovation, #NatureBasedSolutions, #ClimateServices, #Art & #Science collaborative projects, and many more...

It was great to see colleagues and collaborators at the CSSP-China Annual Meeting at the Met Office this week!

I feel like I haven't done an "in-person" event in ages, and as well as presenting some exciting work on long-lead seasonal forecasts, I got more out of a few minutes of the Q&A and discussions afterwards than I have in many hours of virtual meetings.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola-golding-062484127_weve-had-a-fantastic-few-days-at-cssp-china-activity-7125843003444719617-cSlR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

#climate #climateservices