Climateurope at EGU: splinter session

Convener: Janette Bessembinder

During this session information will be presented about Climateurope, a European Coordination project on Climate Observations, Modelling and Climate Services. Climateurope will coordinate and support Europe’s knowledge base, to enable better management of climate-related risks and opportunities and create greater social and economic value. This will be achieved by creating synergies between different European, national and international initiatives in the fields of Earth-system modelling and climate services through a managed network. The Climateurope network will facilitate dialog among climate science communities, funding bodies, climate service providers and users. So farm, the project has developed a website, where information from many European initiatives, projects, events is collected, an Internet communication Platform is developed for discussion with stakeholders, regular webinars are organized and a first State-of-the-art review is finished , connecting Earth System Mo delling and Climate Services. During this session several aspects of ths project will be presented and ample time is reserved for discussion about knowledge gaps and needs for further research.