
CLIMAX
Climate services through knowledge co-production
CLIMAX is an inter- and trans-disciplinary project implemented to underpin climate services in South America. CLIMAX engages scientists as well as key actors from national meteorologicalservices, public institutions and civil society organizations. The project is intended to better understand climate variability and predictability in South America, to develop innovative monitoring and prediction tools of regional climate, and to co-produce climate-related knowledge of relevance for agriculture and hydropower sectors.
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The developed new dynamic vegetation models better simulate the interaction between tropical vegetation and climate variability.They provide novel insights about the impact of land use change on climate, as well as they evaluate high-impact events such as drought on rainforest in South America.
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CLIMAX’ innovative monitoring and prediction tools deliver regional climate information.Specific products of relevance for agriculture and hydrology sectors have been made, such as new monitoring indices and prediction information on weeks and seasons in advance.
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The co-production has been implemented through a theoretical-methodological framework that was unprecedented for the regional climate research.It facilitates the development of socially meaningful and valuable products such as a rainfall community network and a cellphone application to disseminate codesigned climate information among small farmer communities in Argentina. It provides a continuous learning space for all the actors involved.

About
CLIMAX is an inter- and trans-disciplinary project implemented to underpin climate services in South America. CLIMAX engages scientists as well as key actors from national meteorologicalservices, public institutions and civil society organizations. The project is intended to better understand climate variability and predictability in South America, to develop innovative monitoring and prediction tools of regional climate, and to co-produce climate-related knowledge of relevance for agriculture and hydropower sectors.
Project leader
My name is Carolina Vera and I am the CLIMAX Project Coordinator. As a climate scientist I am interested in understanding climate variability and change in South America, to develop useful climate monitoring and prediction tools. My main motivation in this project is to engage researchers from different disciplines (climate, ecology, anthropology, computer) with local actors in a symmetric dialog that allows an increase of climate related knowledge of social relevance.
Project consortium
Wageningen Environmental Research
French-Argentinean Institute of Climate Studies and its Impacts
French National Institute for Sustainable Development
Technical University of Munich
National Institute for Space Research
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
French-Argentinean Institute of Climate Studies and its Impacts (IFAECI), University of Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina and CNRS, France, oversaw the scientific general
coordination, developed climate prediction and monitoring tools and studied climate variability and change in South America. Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD/
UMR245), France, coordinated the stakeholder engagement and coproduction activities in Argentina and performed the related social science research. Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research (PIK) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, coordinated the simulations activities with dynamic vegetation models and the associated analyses.
National Institute for Space Science (INPE), Brazil, coordinated the stakeholder engagement and coproduction activities in Brazil, the studies on climate variability and predictability in
South America, and modelling development. Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement (LSCE), Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France,
developed one of the dynamica vegetation models. ALTERRA, Wageningen University, Netherlands, developed impact models for agriculture and hydrology.
Documents
There are more than 100 documents published in this project. Please visit the project website for the full list.
- Article in journal
Assessment of ECMWF Subseasonal Temperature Predictions for an Anomalously Cold Week Followed by an Anomalously Warm Week in Central and Southeastern South America during July 2017
- Article in journal
Climate variability over South America- regional and large scale features simulated by the Brazilian Atmospheric Model (BAM-v0)
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Evaluation of climate simulations produced with the Brazilian global atmospheric model version 1.2.
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Assessment of South America summer rainfall climatology and trends in a set of Global Climate Models Large Ensembles.
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Publications CLIMAX project website
News & Events
Parent programme
Call 2015
Call for Climate Services Collaborative Research action on Climate Predictability and Inter-regional Linkages
Climate Services aim at providing more reliable climate information for the near future (months to decades) relevant for local and regional users. Within this broad context, variability of polar and tropical systems affects a large proportion of the world population. This call with the Belmont Forum aimed to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Eight multi-national projects have been selected for funding through this call.
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