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Vieri Tarchiani
September 13, 2024

Remontée du Fleuve Niger à Niamey le 11 septembre 2024

Le mois d’Aout 2024 a été caracterisé par une forte montée des eaux du Fleuve Niger culminant le 21 aout 2024 avec un pic de débit de 2438 m3/s (hauteur d’eau 672 cm). Après une baisse qui a ramené le niveau du fleuve Niger à Niamey sous le seuil de vigilance […]

Vieri Tarchiani
September 13, 2024

Crue du Fleuve Niger dans le mois d’Août 2024

Le fleuve Niger a connu au cours du mois d’août 2024, une importante montée des eaux au Niger. Les importantes précipitations enregistrées dans le bassin du fleuve Niger au Burkina, au Mali et dans le sud-ouest du Niger constituent les causes principales de cette montée des eaux. C’est la période […]

Marina Baldi
April 18, 2024

The 4th edition Agromet School “Agricultural Meteorology for managing the extreme events”

Date: 24-28 June 2024 Venue: University Campus, Conegliano Veneto (I) The increasing frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change represents a severe threat to agriculture. The long-lasting socio-economic costs of extreme events pose serious challenges for the farmers and the communities. Agricultural Meteorology, through the development of new […]

Web Editor
January 18, 2024

Drought Bulletin December 2023

Globally, 2023 was the hottest year on record since the pre-industrial era (1850-1900), with an average anomaly of almost +1.5°C, and two days in November that exceeded 2°C for the first time. In 2023, Europe experienced unusually high temperatures, with 11 out of 12 months recording temperatures above the historical […]

Elena Rapisardi
December 20, 2023

The COP28 Agreement: Desperately Seeking Hope

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse from power, and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections swayed More than his reason. Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” Act 3, Scene 1 At every COP, the United Nations climate summit, and the recently concluded COP28 […]

EWAFRICA
TRAINING INITIATIVE

Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) for Africa

NEW INITIATIVE

WMO RTC Italy at COP28

The 3rd edition Agromet School begins in Bratislava

December 11, 2023

In Bratislava, the seeds of agricultural resilience are being sown as we speak, on December 11th, marking the commencement of

Education and Training at COP28: Italian Side Event

December 9, 2023

On December 9, at the Italy Pavilion during COP 28 (United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai), the Meteorological Service

Early Warning to Strengthen Resilience against Weather, Water, and Climate Events

December 8, 2023

In 2022, in a stride towards global weather preparedness, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched the ‘Early Warnings for All

Les Services Agrométéorologiques pour les producteurs ruraux pour le développement et la durabilité de l’agriculture au Sénégal, Mauritanie, Mali, Burkina Faso et Niger

L’agriculture sahélienne depuis son origine est confrontée à la variabilité climatique qui a caractérisé son développement au cours des millénaires et a conduit les agriculteurs à adopter des stratégies fonctionnelles pour minimiser les risques. Dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, l’agrométéorologie s’est développée comme une science appliquée pour soutenir l’agriculture, réduire les risques climatiques et maximiser les opportunités de production. Au Sahel, les applications agrométéorologiques dans l’agriculture ont pris

The added value of the process in climate services co-production: Lessons from Niger

Climate services are recognized as an essential tool for sustainable development in strategic and climate-sensitive sectors. In developing countries, particularly in Africa, the literature offers successful examples of application, especially in the agricultural sector, which is dramatically sensitive to climate variability and change. While, initially, particular emphasis was placed on the outcomes of these services and the benefits they provide to users, several authors, more recently, have focused their attention

Toward effective communication of agrometeorological services

Agrometeorological services are a subset of climate services targeted to support farmers’ tactical and strategic decisions, with the potential to support farmers’ capacity to cope with climate variability and change, as well as strengthen their resilience toward climatic risks. However, the effectiveness of such services is often limited by inadequate and unsuitable means of communication with farmers. Therefore, in recent years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and partners have focussed

Science for Policy Handbook

Science for Policy Handbook provides advice on how to bring science to the attention of

Identifying climate information services users and their needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and learning agenda

Climate information services (CIS) involve the production, translation, transfer, and use of climate information

Risk Governance and the Integration of Different Types of Knowledge

Starting from a definition of risk governance, the paper examines a number of environmental

Narratives of change and the co-development of climate services for action

After the Paris Agreement, the transition towards a carbon-free society necessitates new forms of

Science for Policy Handbook

Edited by Vladimír Šucha, Marta Sienkiewicz, JRC

Science and Politics
institutional change, policy challenges, Post-Normal Science

Identifying climate information services users and their needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review and learning agenda

Edward R. Carr, Rob Goble, Helen M. Rosko, Catherine Vaughan & James Hansen

Climate Services
Adaptation, Africa, learning agenda, users needs

Risk Governance and the Integration of Different Types of Knowledge

Bruna De Marchi

Risk & Natural Hazards
Civil Protection, DDR, Deepwater Horizon, Risk Governance, Seismic Swarm

Narratives of change and the co-development of climate services for action

Werner Krauß

Climate Science, Climate Services
Anthropology, Collaboration, Environmental humanities, Narrative theory

Climate services for society: origins, institutional arrangements, and design elements for an evaluation framework

Vaughan, C.; Dessai, S.

Climate Science, Climate Services
Adaptation, Vulnerability

Visualization of Climate and Climate Change Data: An Overview

Thomas NOCKE, Till STERZEL, Michael BÖTTINGER and Markus WROBEL

Data Viz

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

Vaughan, C, Hansen, J, Roudier, P, Watkiss, P, Carr, E.

Agriculture, Climate Services, Risk & Natural Hazards
Impacts of Climate Change

Science, politics and society: the post-normal approach in theory and practice.

L’Astorina, A. & Mangia, C. (eds)

Climate Science, Uncertainty
Post-Normal Science, Science for Policy

The tragedy of climate change science

Bruce C. Glavovic, Timothy F. Smith & Iain White

Climate Science
Climate Change, Science-Society Contract, Transformation

CNR-IBE
Climate services

WHAT ARE CLIMATE SERVICES?

Climate services are products supplied with continuity over a reasonably long horizon for a particular category of users. Climate services differ from simple climate information because delivered regularly. They differ from meteorological information and services, such as forecast, data, observations both by the time scale and the added value (specific user, specific sector).

CLIMATE SERVICES: WHY THEY MATTER

The awareness of the economic and social impacts of climate change is increasing. A proactive approach can support the reduction of these impacts: it is better to prepare for such events than react. From this perspective, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) strongly encourages the implementation of Climate Services to meet the needs of the different stakeholders.

The CNR-IBE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

Over the last 20 years, scientific research reached excellent results in the forecasts at different temporal and spatial scale. Researchers investigated to what extent human actions have consequences on climate change. Research findings underlines the advantage of the synergy between producers and users of climate information together with the development of operational tools.

The IBE Climate Services have reached different degrees of maturity. Some are already declared operational.

Others are under development or are operational for supporting internal research.

Drought Observatory

Operational services for decision-makers, stakeholders, and water managers. Monthly Bulletin (Italy), Indices, and Maps.

Platforme Slapis

Web Platform distributing hydrological information. Slapis was developed in the framework of ANADIA 2.0 project.

Agrosat

Agriculture 4.0, interoperable, free, open and collaborative. Supporting agriculture ecosystem to increase its potential.

MedGold

Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, OLive and Durum wheat food systems

Sensor Web Hub

Environmental monitoring data sharing (agrometeo, urban climate, indoor, weather, renewable energy) for decision making.

CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE

“Worldwide impacts and costs of adverse climatic events like droughts, storms and floods can be significantly reduced through greater global cooperation and sharing of expertise and data. This calls for a new global “framework” to organize the efficient flow of climate information to all those who need it.”

Experience and mission

CNR IBE has an acknowledged experience in conceiving, organizing and delivering training on climate disciplines both in presence and online. RTC Italy’s aim is to contribute to the widespread of climate information and knowledge. So to help governments, organizations or individuals to better cope with climate risks.

TRAINING FOCUS

The RTC Italy training programs focuse on the impact of climate change on natural resources and agriculture. They also focus on sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting and prediction to manage water resources and agriculture. RTC Italy organises specific training sessions and workshops for international projects in African countries.

EWAfrica

Agricultural Meteorology School 3rd Edition 2023

Agricultural Meteorology School 2nd Edition 2022

National Training

Capacity-building initiatives on advanced Meteorology, Climatology and Climate change.

Agricultural Meteorology School 1st Edition 2021

TOPACS

Training operational Packages for Climate Services. A joint initiative of WMO and CNR-IBE, with the collaboration of IC-CNR.

TOP

A shared set of online resources to enhance knowledge in seasonal forecasting and operational use of seasonal climate forecasts.

Integrated
Projects

Research and Action

Integrated Projects are complex initiatives integrating multiple components including operational services, capacity building activities and research. Bilateral and multilateral integrated projects are sponsored by funding agencies such as the Italian Cooperation, WMO, EU and often co-funded by IBE-CNR.

Slapis Sahel

SLAPIS SAHELProject Système Locale d’Alerte Précoce pour les Inondations au Sahel Slapis Sahel A Training and Research for Development Project The increase in the frequency

Anadia 2.0 Assistance Agrométéo

Assistance agrométéorologique pour les producteurs ruraux: Services Météorologiques et Climatiques pour réduire la vulnerabilité.

Slapis Early Warning System

Attitude proactive pour s’adapter aux changements climatiques et réduire le risque hydrologique dans les Communes de la Sirba.

Anadia 2.0

Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Prevention and Agricultural Development for Food Security. A training and research project contributing to the development of sustainable agriculture, through the adaptation of production systems to climate change.

Data as a Service

IBE ClimateServices provides full, open and free-of-charge access to data and information, consistent with the international data sharing principles.

The aim is to provide opportunities for the research and the stakeholder community to create a shared sustainable growth to cope with global challenges.

IBE commitment is to foster compliance with OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) data standards and web services and improve access to data, with a view towards long-term data stewardship.

Henri Poincaré, theoretical physicist

“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.”

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Shafer, M. (2008).

“Do we, as scientists, need to concern ourselves with whether or how the information is used?”

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