Improving the usability of climate services for the water sector: The AQUACLEW experience
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Elsevier
Materia
Benchmarking Climate projection Climate Services User Engagement Water Sector
Date
2022-10-21Referencia bibliográfica
Rafael Pimentel... [et al.]. Improving the usability of climate services for the water sector: The AQUACLEW experience, Climate Services, Volume 28, 2022, 100329, ISSN 2405-8807, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100329]
Patrocinador
Swedish Research Council Formas; BMWFW; Spanish Government; French National Research Agency (ANR); European Commission European Commission Joint Research Centre; Helmholtz Association; German Aerospace Centre (DLR); IFD 690462Résumé
In AQUACLEW (Advancing the QUAlity of CLimate services for European Water), a project funded by JPI Climate
and the ERA-NET Consortium ‘European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS), we examined different
ways of improving the usability of existing Climate Services across Europe tackling key aspects in Climate
Services improvement: user engagement, lack of resolution, uncertainties, and the need of an evaluation. The
rationale of the project is based on an interactive process between service developers and users in seven study
cases across Europe assessing the implications of Climate Service’ advancement in users’ decision-making process.
A qualitative evaluation assessment allowed us to identify-four pillars when improving the quality of the
climate services in the water sector: (1) Robustness, accounting for better quality of the service’ information in
certain aspects; (2) Recruitment, understood as a need of involving users more actively in CS structures; (3)
Reform, highlighting the possible need for changes in both the service structure and users mindsets; and (4)
Reflection, as a process of continuous evaluation of the climate service during its life.