Climate Explorer
Summary
Year of implementation: 2011
Architecture: Web
FOSS & Licensing: Yes, MIT
Geographical Coverage: Global
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Component
Planet
Official site : Climate Explorer
General
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) will combine observations of the climate system with the latest science to develop authoritative, quality-assured information about the past, current and future states of the climate in Europe and worldwide.
ECMWF operates the Copernicus Climate Change Service on behalf of the European Union and will bring together expertise from across Europe to deliver the service.
C3S will provide key indicators on climate change drivers such as carbon dioxide and impacts, for example, reducing glaciers. The aim of these indicators will be to support European adaptation and mitigation policies in a number of sectors.
This service will deliver substantial economic value to Europe by:
Informing: policy development to protect citizens from climate-related hazards such as high-impact weather event
Improving: planning of mitigation and adaptation practices for key human and societal activities
Promoting: the development of new services for the benefit of society
The service will build upon and complement capabilities existing at national level and being developed through a number of climate-change research initiatives. It will become a major contribution from the European Union to the WMO Global Framework for Climate Services and its Climate Monitoring Architecture.
The service will provide comprehensive climate information covering a wide range of components of the Earth system and timescales spanning decades to centuries. It will maximize the use of past, current, and future earth observations (from in-situ and satellite observing systems) in conjunction with modelling, supercomputing, and networking capabilities. This will produce a consistent, comprehensive, and credible description of the past, current and future climate.