Climate Services - Mapping of Providers and Purveyors in the Netherlands and Sweden

Summary, in English

This report is a result of a cooperation project between Lund University in Sweden and the Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, KNMI, in the Netherlands. The overall aim of the project was to provide an initial mapping of providers and purveyors of climate services in the Netherlands and Sweden. In total, 64 organisations participated in the study, through questionnaire replies and/or interviews. The report presents the results of the mapping, including the use of the term climate services, existing climate services portfolios, how these services are developed and how they are communicated to the users of the services. It compares the Swedish and Dutch landscapes of the climate services provision, and also discusses their potential gaps and possible ways of enhancing the provision of climate services.

• Author: Terese Göransson; Markku Rummukainen
• Department/s: BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate; MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system; Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: CEC Report
• Issue: 1
• Document type: Report
• Publisher: Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, Lund University
• Topic: Other Social Sciences; Information Systems, Social aspects (including Human Aspects of ICT)
• Keywords: Climate services; climate information; climate data; Netherlands; Sweden
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-91-981577-3-4