INDECIS

What is the INDECIS project about?

INDECIS is a “from data to service” project. INDECIS improves the available climate datasets by adding data and improving their quality. INDECIS defines climate indicators oriented to the sectors agriculture, disaster risk reduction, energy health, tourism and water. These indicators are defined by the consortium in consultation with sector’s specialists. Figure 1 shows a precipitation index example of the coldest quarter for a particular data point. Data and indices definitions are downloadable from the site in NetCDF format. The indicators are suitable for comparison with atmospheric patterns and sectoral data. INDECIS compares its indices with modelled data and discusses with sectoral stakeholders on their potential as climate services.

Figure 1: Example index, extracted from http://www.indecis.eu/indices.php

Highlights

• INDECIS has digitized more than 600.000 daily values across Europe, especially for the Balkan region and Italy, and compiled over 300 subdaily records across the globe of tall wind masts. (http://www.indecis.eu/data.php)
• INDECIS created experimental datasets to improve its statistical methodologies (http://www.indecis.eu/benchmarking.php), compiled software suites for analyis that are open to the scientific community (http://www.indecis.eu/software.php) and defined and provided a series of climate indicators (http://www.indecis.eu/indices.php)
• INDECIS invites stakeholders to discuss its series of climate indicators and to compare them with atmospheric patterns, reanalysis and models (http://www.indecis.eu/wp5.php   and  http://www.indecis.eu/wp6.php )

Keywords / hashtags

Keywords; climate datasets; climate indices; climate software

Hashtags; #indecis, #climateindices, #GFCSsectors

Potential societal impacts

INDECIS provides open access to climate products such as indices, data and software. The project dedicates efforts to engage stakeholders with potential interests in INDECIS’s results through workshops and has already published 35 contributions. Climate services delivery to end-users is the focus of the second half of the project by providing climate datasets, indices, software and reports to potential customers from  priority sectors such as agriculture, disaster risk reduction, energy, health, water and tourism.

The role of JPI Climate

JPI Climate is supporting INDECIS by providing funds and networks. Additionally, JPI Climate can help us to  ensure that project results are transferred to society and contribute to increased climate resilience, even after the project ends.

Participants in the second General Assembly, November 2018, at Met Éireann Headquarters in Dublin.