TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving the usability of climate services for the water sector
T2 - The AQUACLEW experience
AU - Pimentel, Rafael
AU - Photiadou, Christiana
AU - Little, Lorna
AU - Huber, Andreas
AU - Lemoine, Anthony
AU - Leidinger, David
AU - Lira-Loarca, Andrea
AU - Lückenkötter, Johannes
AU - Pasten-Zapata, Ernesto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Benchmarking
KW - Climate projection
KW - Climate Services
KW - User Engagement
KW - Water Sector
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85140074253&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100329
DO - 10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100329
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140074253
SN - 2405-8807
VL - 28
JO - Climate Services
JF - Climate Services
M1 - 100329
ER -