About
ISIpedia develops the ISIpedia online encyclopedia and coordinates the research within ISIMIP: The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project. Comprehensive information about the impacts of climate change is essential for decision makers when considering response options to projected climate-change. These options range from adjusting international mitigation targets to planning regional adaptation measures. They include informing the implementation of both adaptation and mitigation measures. The central product of this project is the ISIpedia open inter-sectoral impacts encyclopedia. This encyclopedia will act as a hub for multi-model, policy-relevant, climate-impact simulations and assessments. The ISIpedia encyclopedia is a prototype stakeholder-driven climate service to assist stakeholders to respond to evolving future climate-change scenarios.
Information about the impacts of climate change that will be provided by ISIpedia will help for example decision makers while considering response options to projected climate change. Thereby ISIpedia can contribute to the implementation of international agreements as the Paris Agreement. ISIpedia addresses not only decision makers. Its information about climate impacts can also help a variety of stakeholders from civil society with their work on responding to climate change.
Project leader
My name is dr. Machiel Lamers and I am the SALIENSEAS project leader. I have a longstanding interest in sustainability and climate adaptation of tourism in the polar regions. My interest in the coproduction of sea ice forecasts came from my role as co-chair of the Social and Economic Research Applications group of the Polar Prediction Project (PPP-SERA) of the World Meteorological Organisation in which we stimulate social science in these fields.
Project consortium
Umeå University
Wageningen University & Research
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Danish Meteorological Institute
The Norwegian College of Fishery Science
Umeå University, Sweden is responsible for studying mobility patterns and sea ice information needs of different Arctic marine sectors. The work relies on observation, interviewing, and on an innovative public participatory GIS approach to map Arctic marine mobility patterns and the challenges and risks faced by end-users. It will lead to an agenda for the development of climate services for the European Arctic.
Wageningen University, The Netherlands, is the overall project lead and responsible for studying the impact of sea ice forecasts services in decision-making contexts (e.g. planning, operations). It formulates design principles, simulates the use of tailor-made services and develops a support-tool for co-producing and testing climate services. State-of-the art methods are used such as companion modelling, a role-playing game and agent-based modelling.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Danish Meteorological Institute aim to utilize the great potential of currently available databases of metocean conditions for developing sea ice forecasts. By using advanced statistical downscaling methods, predictive power of key monitoring data are evaluated in order to define new forecast products, tailored to end-user needs. Importantly, the demonstration services developed will be merged into MET Norway’s and DMI’s forecasting infrastructure and maintained and developed beyond the lifetime of this project.
Maritime sector representatives involved in the project are: Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators, MaritimT Nord, Royal Arctic Line, Arctia, Greenland Pilot Service, Association of Fishers and Hunters Greenland.
Documents
All documents can be found on the project website: https://salienseas.com/?page_id=3384
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