
AQUACLEW
Advancing Quality of Climate Services for European Water
AQUACLEW investigates how to increase user uptake of climate services in a broad community using online, general information, and tailored decision-support in multiple case studies and how to improve co-development to better incorporate user feedback along the entire climate service production chain, from research to production, service use and decision making, how should data, quality-assurance metrics and guidance be tailored along the whole data-production chain to closer meet user requirements, including resolution and precision.
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AQUACLEW developed three frameworks.One for scientific selection of climate and hydrological models for impact assessment when using climate services, one framework for procedures on calibration/validation of hydrological models and one framework for calibration and validation of bias adjustment methods. All frameworks are designed for climate change impact analyses.
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Preliminary results of AQUACLEW focus group meetings show that understanding and use of climate services can vary between people with similar backgrounds.The initial feedback loop results on all steps in the production chain seem to reflect a similar pattern, but further data needs to be collected.
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The seven case studies around Europe use existing and new methods developed in the project for climate impact assessments.. These assessments support water management decisions in relation to biodiversity, flash flooding, agriculture, coastal flooding, hydropower and water allocation.

About
AQUACLEW investigates how to increase user uptake of climate services in a broad community using online, general information, and tailored decision-support in multiple case studies and how to improve co-development to better incorporate user feedback along the entire climate service production chain, from research to production, service use and decision making, how should data, quality-assurance metrics and guidance be tailored along the whole data-production chain to closer meet user requirements, including resolution and precision.
AQUACLEW provides scientists, engineers, businesses and policy makers with climate change impact assessments by means of indicators tailored to users’ adaptation needs. It provides options for improving the quality and usability of climate services for water and can foster the use of improved climate services by purveyors and end-users. AQUACLEW advances the knowledge on how adaptation decisions and actions are taken. It contributes to societal and business resilience against climate change and natural disasters and creates new business opportunities in climate services.
Project leader
I am Christiana Photiadou (Dr.), the project coordinator. My interests are hydroclimatic impact modelling and forecasting on seasonal and longterm scales. I develop climate services for the water sector. I am motivated to improve the quality of data that is delivered through different climate services and platforms and want to ensure that the data is used following good practices.
Project consortium
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
IRSTEA
Technical University of Dortmund
University of Innsbruck
University of Cordoba
University of Granada
In AQUACLEW project, nine organisations from across Europe cooperate. They have different experience and expertise in developing climate services, providing data and collaborating with users. All partners are actively involved in researching user needs for better understanding, improving data quality for climate change impacts and evaluating how co-development of climate services facilitates decision-making in Europe.
We have an extensive user community across different countries; please visit the project website (https://aquaclew.eu/partners/) for a full list of users.
Documents
All publications can be found on the project website: https://aquaclew.eu/publications/
- Article in journal
Summertime precipitation extremes in a EURO-CORDEX 0.11° ensemble at an hourly resolution.
- Article in journal
A comparison of hydrological climate services at different scales by users and scientists.
- Article in journal
How the performance of hydrological models relates to credibility of projections under climate change.
- Article in journal
Climate change: Sources of uncertainty in precipitation and temperature projections for Denmark.
- Article in journal
An information theory approach to identifying a representative subset of hydro-climatic simulations for impact modeling studies.
- Article in journal
Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems.
News & Events
Parent programme
ERA4CS
European Research Area for Climate Services
ERA-NET Cofund for Climate Services - This ERA-NET Consortium has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe, by supporting research for developing better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate information to cope with current and future climate variability.
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