Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

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 …

Water conflicts: From ancient to modern times and in the future

AN Angelakis, M Valipour, AT Ahmed, V Tzanakakis… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since prehistoric times, water conflicts have occurred as a result of a wide range of tensions
and/or violence, which have rarely taken the form of traditional warfare waged over water …

[HTML][HTML] WMO global annual to decadal climate update: a prediction for 2021–25

L Hermanson, D Smith, M Seabrook… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update: A Prediction for 2021–25 in: Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society Volume 103 Issue 4 (2022) Jump to Content Logo Logo Logo …

Flexible forecast presentation overcomes longstanding obstacles to using probabilistic seasonal forecasts

JW Hansen, T Dinku, AW Robertson, R Cousin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We describe an innovative forecast presentation that aims to overcome obstacles to using
seasonal climate forecasts for decision making, trace factors that influenced how seasonal …

Addressing power imbalances in co-production

K Vincent, S Carter, A Steynor, E Visman… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Co-production is an increasingly popular approach to knowledge generation encouraged by
donors and research funders. However, power dynamics between institutions in the Global …

[HTML][HTML] Climate services for managing societal risks and opportunities

CD Hewitt, R Stone - Climate Services, 2021 - Elsevier
The Earth's climate and changes to it impact our lives, well-being and economy in numerous
ways, some positive and some negative. Managing the risks that arise from changes in the …

Meaningful climate science

TG Shepherd, EA Lloyd - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Within the climate science community, useable climate science has been understood as
quantitative, usually as a best estimate together with a quantified uncertainty. Physical …

[HTML][HTML] Towards useful decadal climate services

N Dunstone, J Lockwood… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The decadal time scale (∼ 1–10 years) bridges the gap between seasonal predictions and
longer-term climate projections. It is a key planning time scale for users in many sectors as …