Advancing QUAlity of CLimate services for European Water (ERA-NET ERA4CS/PCIN-2017-072)
The current work to develop climate services indicates that the following crucial improvements are required to increase user adoption and satisfaction: (a) indicators and resolution of the indicators given by the service needs to address a wider range of user needs; (b) large-scale climate service data should be more reliable at the local decision scale and (c) guidance and visualization tools in the services should better reflect the wider range of user needs. In AQUACLEW, research addressing these improvements will be co-developed considering user inputs to further integrate users across the whole chain of climate service production. This means users are updated on the latest scientific knowledge; better understand potentials or limitations of the data and can influence (choose between) assumptions made in each step when producing the service output.
General Objectives
The overall goal of AQUACLEW is to use innovative research techniques and integrated co-development with users to advance the quality and usability of several climate services for several water related sectors.
Role of the University of Cordoba
Our university leads WP1 “User needs” and therefore it is in charge of developing advanced feed-back loops along the whole chain of information production, to better understand user needs. In addition, UCO participates actively in the others work packages. In WP2, UCO is involved in the different proposed experiment to improve data quality (i.e. climate and hydrological model selection, and application of expert elicitation techniques in the context of climate services); in WP3, UCO leads one of the study cases “Drought and Water resource allocation for tourism, agriculture, energy sectors”; and WP4 contributes in the definition of the key performance indictors to quaintly the success in the project.
Investigador Principal: María José Polo Gómez
Correo electrónico de contacto: mjpolo@uco.es
Página web del proyecto: http://aquaclew.eu/