Evaluating agricultural weather and climate services in Africa: Evidence, methods, and a learning agenda

C Vaughan, J Hansen, P Roudier… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Weather and climate services (WCS) are expected to improve the capacity of Africa's
agricultural sector to manage the risks of climate variability and change. Despite this, a lack …

Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data

K Findlater, S Webber, M Kandlikar, S Donner - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
Climate services are intended to improve climate-sensitive decisions by making climate
information 'useful, useable and used'. Here, we analyse 27 expert interviews to evaluate …

[HTML][HTML] Making society climate resilient: International progress under the global framework for climate services

CD Hewitt, E Allis, SJ Mason, M Muth… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
There is growing awareness among governments, businesses, and the general public of
risks arising from changes to our climate on time scales from months through to decades …

Fit for purpose? Transforming national meteorological and hydrological services into national climate service centers

R Mahon, C Greene, SA Cox, Z Guido, AK Gerlak… - Climate Services, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate services are becoming an important strategy for delivering climate information to
users around the world. In many countries, National Meteorological and Hydrological …

Assessing climate service products with evaluation metrics: an application to decision support tools for climate change adaptation in the USA

M Jahan, J Reis, J Shortridge - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
As the field of climate services advances, there is increasing recognition of the need for
evaluation of climate services. Existing research largely includes detailed evaluations and …

Develop medium‐to long‐term climate information services to enhance comprehensive climate risk management in Africa

J Omukuti, MA Wanzala, J Ngaina… - Climate Resilience and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing climate change risks in Africa, emerging from global warming and their
interaction with non‐climate risks such as market, have increased the need for …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing climate services in South Asia

J Daron, MB Soares, T Janes, F Colledge, G Srinivasan… - Climate Services, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Many communities in South Asia are highly exposed and vulnerable to weather and
climate hazards, and climate services play an important role in managing present and future …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of regional climate services: Learning from seasonal-scale examples across the Americas

C Vaughan, MF Muth, DP Brown - Climate Services, 2019 - Elsevier
A growing body of scientific work is focused on the evaluation of climate services. This
literature has helped to characterize the relative success of individual services; it has also …

The gnat and the bull do climate outlook forums make a difference?

AK Gerlak, SJ Mason, M Daly… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Little has been documented about the benefits and impacts of the recent growth in climate
services, despite a growing call to justify their value and stimulate investment. Regional …

Exploring the landscape of seasonal forecast provision by Global Producing Centres

D Bojovic, A Nicodemou, AL St. Clair, I Christel… - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
Despite the growing demand for seasonal climate forecasts, there is limited understanding
of the landscape of organisations providing this critically important climate information. This …