Project Profile: CLIMAX
Climate Services Through Knowledge Co-Production: A Euro-South American Initiative for Strengthening Societal Adaptation Response to Extreme Events
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Carolina Vera, The National Center for Scientific Research, Argentina |
| Partners: | Iracema Cavalcanti, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil Philippe Ciais, The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France Bart Kruijt, Wageningen University and Research (WUR) - Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Netherlands Anja Rammig, Technical University Munich, Germany Kirsten Thonicke, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Valeria Hernandez, Institute of Research for Development, France |
| Sponsors: | São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil French National Research Agency, France Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Netherlands |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Climate Services Through Knowledge Co-Production: A Euro-South American Initiative for Strengthening Societal Adaptation Response to Extreme Events |
| Full Call Title: | Climate2015 |
| Website: | http://climax-sa.org/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | Project objectives are: 1) to better understand the combined role of remote and local drivers on South America climate variability from sub-seasonal to decadal timescales, and its impact on the occurrence and intensity of extreme events. Special focus will be placed on an improved understanding of the effects of land use changes from the Amazon to the subtropics and their impact on extreme precipitation events; 2) to assess the predictability levels associated with regional climate pattern from sub-seasonal to decadal time scales; 3) to develop innovative regional prediction tools not only of climate variability but also of climate impact on both agriculture and hydrology in SSA on subseasonal and seasonal time scales; 4) to analyze climate knowledge co-production in order to revise how climate data are used by various stakeholders in their socio-cultural contexts; 5) to analyze communication conditions of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary process of knowledge co-production that determines the usefulness of climate information in the process. |
| Call Objective: | This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Major impediments indeed still exist having efficient climate services at regional and local level, because of little or poorly understood climate processes (in part caused by a paucity of observations), inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large. |
Where?
| Regions: | South America |
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When?
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| Call Date: | April 6, 2015 |
| Project Award Date: | 2015 |
