Climate Information Portal for Copernicus

1. Climate Information Portal for Copernicus Charlotte Pascoe STFC

2. CLIPC in brief. Climate, climate change, and its impacts. Information for academic world as well as for policy makers in support of mitigation and adaptation. Portal providing service level integration of existing archives and an extensive knowledge base. Copernicus – part of a global system for sharing Earth Observationproducts. A global federated identification and authorisation service through ESGF. C L I P C

3. Copernicus services Emergency Land Atmosphere Climate Marine Security

4. Copernicus climate services FP7 projects in negotiation: UERRA – regional reanalysis ERA-CLIM2 – global reanalysis CLIPC – climate information portal EUCLEIA – attribution QA4ECV – essential climate variables Climate

5. Climate Impact Indicator Toolkit Human Systems Loss of human lives Flood damage cost estimates Hydropower production changes Tourism comfort index Food trade losses Third “tier” Human health and Socio-economic impacts Flood risks Crop yield losses Niche space for certain species Plant animal phenology Soil erosion by water Biodiversity Increasing relevance for decision making and human drivers Second “tier” Impact on Non-Human environment Natural Systems Snow cover Mountain Permafrost Days with temperature below “X” Number of consecutive dry days Length of Growing season Sea Level Rise First “tier” Functions of Climate Europe-wide data, long time series Local, fragmented data, short time series

6. CLIPC Portal Satellite Data In-Situ Observation Re-Analyses Climate Models Locations Access Protocols File Formats Terminology Transparent access via a single interface

7. CLIPC Work Packages Cross-project collaboration JRC

8. CLIPC Partners STFC is coordinating the CLIPC project. They are the lead participant in charge of the coordination work package WP1. We are leading WP5 for making climate model data available. We are contributing our expertise in the Earth System Grid Federation infrastructure which is in use for CMIP5 and will be the underlying data infrastructure for the provision of climate data in CCLIP. KNMI main contributions will be in providing its expertise on Data Portal development and OGC standardized visualisation (WP3, WP4 and WP6). KNMI will also contribute to the climate change impact indicators (WP6). KNMI is actively searching for coherence between ECOMS projects (SPECS, EUPORIAS), IS-ENES2 and several COPERNICUS projects it is involved in. This is done using (standardized) data delivery using webservices, strong relations with research on Climate Models, Climate predictions/projections and active interactions with adaptation stakeholders. SMHI is leading the work package on transforming climate model data for calculating tier 1 climate change impact indicators (CCII-T1), which are directly derived from climate data. This includes bias correction, development of performance metrics using observational data of the recent past, as well as assessment of uncertainties and development of representative reduced ensembles.

9. CLIPC Partners UKMO Archive Access: Prototype an interface from CLIPC to request that data held in climate modelling centre local archives is generated on demand and made available through an ESGF node within a time period of a few days. If successful this will allow future climate modelling projects to make intelligent decisions on which data should be routinely generated and be immediately available for download from portals such as CLIPC and which data could be held in the data providers archive and delivered/generated when requested by an end-user. UKMO Observations Data: The Met Office will contribute its HadOBS climate data to the CLIPC portal to aid observational comparisons. This will involve extending our existing data dissemination infrastructure to handle non-model data, involving substantial data-reformatting and management of regular updates to the dataset content.

10. CLIPC Partners MARIS (The Netherlands - active in SeaDataNet and EMODNet lots) will be active as WP3 (Web portal development and knowledge base) leader, thereby also developing (part of) the central webportal, and will be working on making relevant EMODNet data resources available to the climate community. The British Oceanographic Data Centre will be working with Maris to provide the controlled vocabulary and semantic support for CLIPC. LIU will participate in the development of tools for delivering ESGF access to EURO4M datasets currently being stored on the MARS system at LIU. Magellium: To ensure that the CLIPC infrastructure is converging with other GMES infrastructures and demonstrate some level of interoperability, particularly with ngEO (the next generation of EO user services for ESA) for which Magellium is the prime contractor.

11. CLIPC Partners CMCC "Development of a multidimensional back-end system for the management and analysis of climate change impact indicators as well as evaluation of data processing services solutions. Dissemination of data products, data services and uncertainty assessments.“ metNo (Met Norway) will mainly contribution with ensuring that the development teams are fully aware of users' needs, and that the users understand the potentials and limitations in making use of available climate data, and the potentials and limitations of the infrastructure and costs associated with various design choices (WP1). SYKE (the Finnish Environment Agency, pronounced "Sooke"), SYKE contributes to the work on impact indicators and functions, in particularly those based on space borne snow and water data. SYKE leads the review of climate impact indicators and their strengths and weaknesses.

12. CLIPC Partners CERFACS will develop new agricultural climate indices for the southern Europe Mediterranean region. These will be made available in the climate toolbox. JRC "Design of new climate indicators with respect to satellite-derived land ECV estimates (such as FAPAR and phenological indicators)" (WP 7) You may also include ensuring the link with Climate-Adapt. JRC