MainDB: Climate Insights

Title: Climate Insights
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NWPTypeOfOrganization: Civil society
NWPGeographicRegion: Africa; Asia; Caribbean and Central America; Europe; North America; Pacific/Oceania; Polar regions; South America
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Good practices and lessons learned: • The application of over 200 climate models that are statistically and dynamically downscaled and applied using the latest ensemble generation methodologies for generation of median and 5th and 95th percentile outputs, therefore more fully embracing the characterisation of uncertainty in future climate models for application in decision making.
• Full global coverage at between 1 km and 5 km and 10 km resolution of data for over 50 variables with a strong emphasis on extremes.
• The variables cover the atmosphere, land and marine environments of the world.
• Key variables include extreme precipitation, applying proprietary internationally published standards for the application of daily global circulation model patterns.
• Other extreme event analysis covers multiple approaches to extreme heat events, drought, including the latest global coverage using SPEI methods (Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index), extreme wind analysis, as well as extreme still high-water levels at the coast that include consideration of sea level rise and vertical land movement).
• Other derived variables include heat and cooling degree days, cold spell duration, net primary production, snow depth, soil moisture and temperature, and seven ocean variables including sea surface temperature, pH and total alkalinity.
• Other easy to use features include a bulk asset import tool whereby hundreds of assets can be imported into the tool and be saved as a project and analysed together for consistency of approach and for generating reports on the fly. The outputs are also exportable as Excel spreadsheets for importation in other third-party analysis products.• Other derived variables include heat and cooling degree days, cold spell duration, net primary production, snow depth, soil moisture and temperature, and seven ocean variables including sea surface temperature, pH and total alkalinity.
• Other easy to use features include a bulk asset import tool whereby hundreds of assets can be imported into the tool and be saved as a project and analysed together for consistency of approach and for generating reports on the fly. The outputs are also exportable as Excel spreadsheets for importation in other third-party analysis products.
• Graphical and tabular data can be viewed on screen in minutes for all the assets that are analysed including, not only future values, but the changes in the climate variable values from the baseline period. This is critical for assessing the rate of change at locations around the world.
• A scientifically robust set of tools can be applied to the physical risk data generated in Climate Insights to produce risk scores and rankings. The CLIMsystems team has developed python code and embedded it into the cloud-base tool for applying TOPSIS (Technique of Order Preference Similarity to the Ideal Solution) and RSR (Rank Sum Ratio) algorithms to the multiple climate risk data to generate overall risk scores for each asset.
• TOPSIS and/or RSR can then be applied to rank all the assets in an end user’s portfolio.
• Risk scores can also be generated by applying either a K-mean method or the Jenks-Break method.
• All the results for the risk scoring and ranking activities can be easily exported as an Excel spreadsheet. Physical risk assessment data can be exported as PDF or Excel files and includes graphs and tables.
• Supporting the cloud-based tools use is an extensive on-line help document.
• The final critical point of difference between Climate Insights and many tools in this space is the complete and exhaustive documentation that provides clear and concise explanations of all the data and methods applied in generating each output.
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Adaptation element: Climate observations; Climate scenarios; Vulnerability assessment
Adaptation sector/theme: Agriculture; Water resources; Coastal areas/zones; Health; Disaster risk reduction; Energy; Infrastructure; Urban resilience; Tourism
Climate hazard: Drought; Erratic rainfall; Extreme cold; Extreme heat; Floods; Increasing temperatures; Land and forest degradation; Ocean acidification; Sea level rise; Shift of seasons; Storm surges; Tropical cyclones/typhoons; Wildfire
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Description: Climate Insights makes accessible pre-processed, and complex, climate and other environmental data. This means actionable information for the globe is now readily available for those interested in TCFD and other asset risk applications. The system is supported by tested and validated local and global datasets and covers the world. Over 50 variables are available representing slow onset change and extremes with a range of derived variables for the land, sea and atmosphere. Risk scoring and ranking methods mean that high quality asset-level physical risk-related climate data are applied. Outputs are viewable in minutes and exportable.
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Further information: https://climateinsights.global/
NWPGeographicScope: Global; Local; National; Regional; Subregional; Transboundary
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NWPInformationType: Tool
NWPJoinDate: 22/09/2020
NWPPartner: CLIMsystems Ltd
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Target group: Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners; Private sector
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NWPTypeOfKnowledge: Technical document/report
NWPCountryItem: Global
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