Climate forecast enabled knowledge services

Project Information

CLARA

Grant agreement ID: 730482

DOI 10.3030/730482

Project closed

EC signature date 5 May 2017

Start date 1 June 2017

End date 30 September 2020

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 3 773 702,53

EU contribution € 3 459 075,00

Coordinated by

FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI
Italy

Deliverables

Documents, reports (16)

Opportunities and barrier report
Final service development report and working prototype
Assessment report concerning the economic value of Clara services
Inception report refining the DoW

Inception report refining the Description of Work (DoW)

Forum activity report II
Pilot application of the services
Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results (PEDR) and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management
Combined dissemination products (II) and revised PEDR&IPR
Forum activity report I

Multi-User forum activity report I

Combined dissemination products (I) and revised PEDR&IPR
Recommendation and synthesis report
Report from the kick-off meeting

Report from the kick-off meeting held in Venice in the month 1

Forum activity report III
Functional Users’ toolkit and Synthesis report
CLARA Website and web services

CLARA website and web services

Assessment framework and methodological toolkit

Open Research Data Pilot (2)

Data management plan (DMP)
Updated Data management plan

Updated Data management plan (DMP)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Smart Climate Hydropower Tool: A Machine-Learning Seasonal Forecasting Climate Service to Support Cost–Benefit Analysis of Reservoir Management

Author(s): Arthur H. Essenfelder, Francesca Larosa, Paolo Mazzoli, Stefano Bagli, Davide Broccoli, Valerio Luzzi, Jaroslav Mysiak, Paola Mercogliano, Francesco dalla Valle
Published in: Atmosphere, Issue 11/12, 2020, Page(s) 1305, ISSN 2073-4433
Publisher: Rotoweb Cantelli
DOI: 10.3390/atmos11121305

Analysis of the Influence of Terrain Orientation on the Design of PV Facilities with Single-Axis Trackers

Author(s): Francisco J. Gómez-Uceda, Isabel M. Moreno-Garcia, José M. Jiménez-Martínez, Rafael López-Luque, Luis M. Fernández-Ahumada
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 10/23, 2020, Page(s) 8531, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app10238531

Constructing a comprehensive disaster resilience index: The case of Italy

Author(s): Sepehr Marzi, Jaroslav Mysiak, Arthur H. Essenfelder, Mattia Amadio, Silvio Giove, Alexander Fekete
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 14/9, 2019, Page(s) e0221585, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221585

Seasonal Climate Forecast Skill Assessment for the Management of Water Resources in a Run of River Hydropower System in the Poqueira River (Southern Spain)

Author(s): Eva Contreras, Javier Herrero, Louise Crochemore, Cristina Aguilar, María José Polo
Published in: Water, Issue 12/8, 2020, Page(s) 2119, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w12082119

Advances in the Definition of Needs and Specifications for a Climate Service Tool Aimed at Small Hydropower Plants’ Operation and Management

Author(s): Eva Contreras, Javier Herrero, Louise Crochemore, Ilias Pechlivanidis, Christiana Photiadou, Cristina Aguilar, María José Polo
Published in: Energies, Issue 13/7, 2020, Page(s) 1827, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en13071827

New Omnidirectional Sensor Based on Open-Source Software and Hardware for Tracking and Backtracking of Dual-Axis Solar Trackers in Photovoltaic Plants

Author(s): Francisco J. Gómez-Uceda, José Ramirez-Faz, Marta Varo-Martinez, Luis Manuel Fernández-Ahumada
Published in: Sensors, Issue 21/3, 2021, Page(s) 726, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s21030726

Can Continental Models Convey Useful Seasonal Hydrologic Information at the Catchment Scale?

Author(s): L. Crochemore, M.‐H. Ramos, I. G. Pechlivanidis
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 56/2, 2020, ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025700

Study of the Dependence of Solar Radiation Regarding Design Variables in Photovoltaic Solar Installations with Optimal Dual-Axis Tracking

Author(s): Francisco Javier Gómez-Uceda, Isabel Maria Moreno-Garcia, Álvaro Perez-Castañeda, Luis Manuel Fernández-Ahumada
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 11/9, 2021, Page(s) 3917, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: Applied Sciences Editorial Office
DOI: 10.3390/app11093917

Multimodel Subseasonal Forecasts of Spring Cold Spells: Potential Value for the Hazelnut Agribusiness

Author(s): Stefano Materia, Ángel G. Muñoz, M. Carmen Álvarez-Castro, Simon J. Mason, Frederic Vitart, Silvio Gualdi
Published in: Weather and Forecasting, Issue 35/1, 2020, Page(s) 237-254, ISSN 0882-8156
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-19-0086.1

How could climate services support disaster risk reduction in the 21st century

Author(s): R.B. Street, C. Buontempo, J. Mysiak, E. Karali, M. Pulquério, V. Murray, R. Swart
Published in: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Issue Volume 18, 2018, ISSN 2212-4209
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.12.001

Climate risk index for Italy

Author(s): Jaroslav Mysiak, Silvia Torresan, Francesco Bosello, Malcolm Mistry, Mattia Amadio, Sepehr Marzi, Elisa Furlan, Anna Sperotto
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 376/2121, 2018, Page(s) 20170305, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0305

Brief communication: Strengthening coherence between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Author(s): Jaroslav Mysiak, Sergio Castellari, Blaz Kurnik, Rob Swart, Patrick Pringle, Reimund Schwarze, Henk Wolters, Ad Jeuken, Paul van der Linden
Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Issue 18/11, 2018, Page(s) 3137-3143, ISSN 1684-9981
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-18-3137-2018

Comparing adaptive capacity index across scales: The case of Italy

Author(s): Sepehr Marzi, Jaroslav Mysiak, Silvia Santato
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 223, 2018, Page(s) 1023-1036, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.06.060

Mapping the landscape of climate services

Author(s): Francesca Larosa, Jaroslav Mysiak
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 14/9, 2019, Page(s) 093006, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab304d

Testing empirical and synthetic flood damage models: the case of Italy

Author(s): Mattia Amadio, Anna Rita Scorzini, Francesca Carisi, Arthur H. Essenfelder, Alessio Domeneghetti, Jaroslav Mysiak, Attilio Castellarin
Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Issue 19/3, 2019, Page(s) 661-678, ISSN 1684-9981
Publisher: Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-19-661-2019

How does seasonal forecast performance influence decision-making? Insights from a serious game

Author(s): Louise Crochemore, Carolina Cantone, Ilias G. Pechlivanidis, Christiana S. Photiadou
Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2021, Page(s) 1-54, ISSN 0003-0007
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0169.1

What Are the Key Drivers Controlling the Quality of Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts?

Author(s): I. G. Pechlivanidis, L. Crochemore, J. Rosberg, T. Bosshard
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 56/6, 2020, ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019WR026987

Business models for climate services: An analysis

Author(s): Francesca Larosa, Jaroslav Mysiak
Published in: Climate Services, Issue 17, 2020, Page(s) 100111, ISSN 2405-8807
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100111