
INDECIS
Integrated approach for the development across Europe of user oriented climate indicators for GFCS priority sectors.
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.
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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)
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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)
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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 )

About
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.
Project leader

Dr. Enric Aguilar
Project leader INDECIS
I am Dr. Enric Aguilar, projectleader of INDECIS. I started this project because of my scientific interest in climate data stewardship that improves the availability and usability of climate data. Our project provides me with the opportunity to continue working in this field, as well as following on the path of “our data” to service society.
Project consortium
University of Reading
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Meteo Romania
The State Meteorological Agency
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
The project Consortium – see www.indecis.eu for complete description - is led by University Rovira i Virgili /Center for Climate Change (URV, C3, Spain), also in charge of data quality and homogeneity. The other 16 partners (see about) are a mixture of National Meteorological and Hydrological Weather Services, research and academic institutions. The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute leads Data Rescue and Data Set Organization; Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, leads indices definition and calculation; University of Reading leads indices time evolution and relations with the atmosphere; National Meterorological Administration of Romania leads the evaluation of gridded datasets, reanalyses and model output and Agencia Estatal de Meteorolgía leads the generation and communication of climate services.
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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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