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October 31, 2023

Drought Bulletin September 2023

Even September has been a record-breaking month on a global scale, ranking as the hottest, with a +0.93°C deviation from the 1991-2020 average. In Europe, it was even 2.51°C warmer than the norm. Sea surface temperatures were also exceptional, making this September the second warmest of all months, just after […]

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August 11, 2023

Drought Bulletin July 2023

On a global scale, July 2023 has proven to be the warmest month on record. Extreme events have also characterized this month. Intense heatwaves have affected the northern hemisphere, causing environmental damage (fires have devastated various areas, from Canada to the Mediterranean, particularly in Algeria, Greece, Italy, and Spain) and […]

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July 24, 2023

Drought Bulletin June 2023

In June, the long-lasting drought (24 months) at the European level continues to hold its grip, especially over the western Mediterranean areas and the east. Meanwhile, Scandinavia, particularly Sweden, is grappling with a significant rainfall deficit in the last 3 months, April to June, affecting over half of the territory. […]

Elena Rapisardi
June 27, 2023

Water and Society: the Emerging Field of Socio-Hydrology

What is Socio-hydrology? The impact of both natural and human interventions on hydrological systems, including inter-basin water transfers, droughts, and agricultural water usage, is crucial. However, these interventions profoundly affect ecosystems and impact human populations’ water needs and demands. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field at the nexus of social and […]

WMO RTC Italy at COP28

Agricultural Meteorology for supporting crop production

Third Edition INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED SCHOOL IN AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY

FAO-IRI Joint Event: Empowering Innovation for Drought and Agriculture

June 20, 2023

In the face of escalating climate change impacts and the growing consequences of drought, it is imperative to develop adaptive and

Drought Bulletin May 2023

June 14, 2023

In late May, the long-lasting drought across Europe continues to tighten its grip, particularly in the western Mediterranean and eastern regions.

Landmark WMO Appointments

June 6, 2023

During the 19th meeting of the World Meteorological Congress, Cg-19, the international community witnessed a landmark moment for the World Meteorological

Field survey data on the effectiveness of agrometeorological services for smallholder farmers in Niger

The dataset contains the answers of smallholder farmers to a semi-structured field survey and the 2020 yield plot measurements conducted in 8 municipalities of the Dosso and Tillabéri regions in Niger. It is a systematic sampling of about 320 questionnaires and 192 yield plot samples equally distributed in eight municipalities of intervention. The dataset contains several pieces of information about the uptake and the impacts of a tailored climate service

Climate stressors modulate interannual olive yield at province level in Italy: A composite index approach to support crop management

Although a large part of Italy is characterized by a Mediterranean climate intrinsically highly suitable for olive cultivation, farmers may experience variable interannual yields with associated agronomic and management costs. A detailed overview of major climate stressors and their ongoing impacts on olive yield variability at a broad spatial–temporal scale across Italy could improve the understanding of how interannual olive yields are modulated by seasonal local climate and would enhance

Evaluation of the Impact of Seasonal Agroclimatic Information Used for Early Warning and Farmer Communities’ Vulnerability Reduction in Southwestern Niger

In Niger (a fully Sahelian country), the use of climate information is one of the early warning strategies (EWSs) for reducing socio-economic vulnerabilities in farmer communities. It helps farmers to better anticipate risks and choose timely alternative options that can allow them to generate more profit. This study assesses the impacts of the use of climate information and services that benefit end-users. Individual surveys and focus groups were conducted with

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.

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.

PACC

Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture Training Programme in the agricultural sector in West Africa.

Integrated
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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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