D3.4 Assessment of Existing and Tailored Climate Services using a range of User-Driven Evaluation Metrics
Authors/Creators
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- 2. Netherlands Red Cross
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IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
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Natural Environment Research Council
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Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
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University of Oslo
Description
This study describes a user-driven evaluation of six climate services within five of the living laboratories (hereafter referred to as living labs) of the I-CISK project. Climate services in this report refers to forecasts of hydro-meteorological variables at either medium range (up to 15 days ahead) or seasonal (up to 6 months ahead) time scales. User-driven evaluation goes beyond conventional statistical evaluation, as it aims to assess the value of a climate service for a user’s decision-making. For example, it could inform users about a climate service’s accuracy in forecasting the conditions when a particular decision-making criterion is met. The results aim to inform users how they could integrate the climate service forecasts within their decision-making process.