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Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake (FPCUP)Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake (FPCUP)

Responding to the Impact of Climate Change [U-CLIMADAPT]

Point of contact
Tobias Geiger
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Güterfelder Damm 87-91
14532 Stahnsdorf
Phone: 069-8062-5422
URL: www.dwd.de

Implementing Partner: CNRS, DWD, FFG, IHCantabria
Implementing Country: Austria, France, Germany, Spain Primary Topic: Climate Change Primary Target Users: Public Sector, Research Sector, Schools Primary Target Region: Europe Type of Action: Developing and piloting downstream applications and services
Action No.: 2021-2-29
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U-CLIMADAPT (User-centric Assessment of Climate Change Impacts for Adaptation) is a joint action by the FPCUP internal Working Group “Impact of Climate Change” with partners from Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), ETH Zurich / MeteoSwiss, CNRS, IHCantabria / Universidad de Cantabria. U-CLIMADAPT will set the foundation for a user-driven adaptation appraisal through the provision of refined and socioeconomically relevant climate impact assessments based on the uptake of climate forecasts and projections from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). U-CLIMADAPT will develop and operationalize downstream applications and services in close cooperation with users from different sectors and with different background. U-CLIMADAPT’s output will be disseminated in many ways: i) by advancing the consortium’s portfolio to provide new users access to novel operational services, ii) by interacting with various user groups in workshops, seminars and short courses, and ii) by upgrading and promoting CLIMADA – the open-source and -access global platform for probabilistic multi-hazard risk modeling and options appraisal as a direct link between CDS and new users.

Outputs and Results:

  • open-source CLIMADA use-cases for climatic extreme impacts for Germany and Switzerland. Technically, this will involve linking CDS APIs to CLIMADA and providing pre-processing tools for C3S data to integrate impact-specific seasonal forecast and climate projection data into CLIMADA’s modeling chain.
  • a web-based operational crowdsourcing platform to gather architectural information influencing urban climate to improve risk assessments and adaptation planning, in particular within cities.
  • a quantification of the aerosol impact on urban heat and human heat stress for one selected city and a simplified indicator as general input for assessment tools for urban heat risk to meteorological and health agencies
  • a freely available (GitHub), open-source stochastic rainfall generator linked to Copernicus data to generate synthetic time series of extreme and regular rainfall (including climate change effects), allowing its use for educational purposes and direct decision-making by engineers.
  • forecasts incl. forecast quality of user-relevant impact indicators and an integration thereof into DWD’s pre-operational service to actively attract new user groups.
  • a workshop promoting regional Copernicus Research & Development & Innovation pilot activities on the impact of climate change for several application areas in the Alps.