Invitation to participate: Have your say on the development of the European Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)

On behalf of the European Commission, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is developing a Climate Data Store which will make climate information freely available to users from 2018. This also includes state-of-the-art climate model data, and information products based on climate model data e.g. written reports, tables, and visualisations.

As part of C3S, the third party funded project "Data Evaluation for Climate Models" (DECM) deals with quality assurance of data and products from climate models at a global and regional scale. To ensure that the climate model data is delivered to a variety of users in the best possible way, DECM aims to understand the requirements of current and potential future users, with regard to climate model data and resulting climate information products.

In this context, GERICS conducts an analysis of technical and scientific requirements of different user groups – from climate scientists who process and analyse climate model data to practitioners who mainly use derived climate information products. To capture the users’ requirements, we recently launched a EU-wide online survey. The results of the survey will inform the development of the Climate Data Store, and help design an easy to use service that offers scientifically sound climate change information.

This is your chance to have a say on the development of the C3S Climate Data Store and express your opinions and needs regarding climate model data and derived information products.

The survey will be open until 30 June 2017: https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/DECM. All information that you supply will be analysed anonymously, and treated confidentially.
the survey

For more information on the project please visit
Copernicus: Data Evaluation for Climate Models