Project description
Innovative weather forecast for cities
Europe's metropolitan areas are increasingly suffering from the effects of climate change. Prolonged heat waves pose a threat to the health of the population. The EU-funded project CityCLIM aims to develop a cloud-based platform that provides various weather and climate services specifically for metropolitan areas. CityCLIM will significantly contribute to delivering technologically advanced city climate services for citizens and city administrations to cope with urban heat islands. To make the envisaged weather and climate services as application-oriented as possible, the project will be carried out in close cooperation with four pilot cities: Karlsruhe in Germany, the city of Luxembourg, Valencia in Spain and Thessaloniki in Greece.
Objective
The strategic objective of CityCLIM is to significantly contribute to delivering the next-generation of City Climate Services based on advanced weather forecast models enhanced with data both from existing, but insufficiently used, sources and emerging data sources, such as satellite data (e.g. Copernicus data) or data generated by Citizens Science approaches for Urban Climate Monitoring etc. For City Climate Services, data products of interest related to land surface properties, atmospheric properties (e.g. aerosol optical thickness), geometry etc. For all of those, information of interest concerns e.g. Copernicus data products and services that are already existing (e.g. based on Sentinel-3/OLCI, PROBA-V, SPOT, Sentinel-1, MetopASCAT data), will exist in the near future (based on already flying satellites such as Sentinel-2), or will exist in the mid-term (based on satellites currently under development) and long-term (based on satellites soon starting concept phase) future. The project will establish; (i) an open platform allowing for efficient building of services based on access to diverse data; (ii) enhanced weather models based on data from diverse existing and emerging sources; (iii) a set of City Climate Services customizable to specific needs of users in cities; and (iv) a generic Framework for building next generation of Urban Climate Services. CityCLIM will be driven by 4 Pilots addressing diverse climate regions in Europe (Luxembourg, Thessaloniki, Valencia, Karlsruhe) which will define requirements upon the tools to be developed, support specification and testing of the services and serve as demonstrators of the selected approaches and the developed technologies. The consortium will elaborate business plan to assure sustainability of the platform and services.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
28359 Bremen
Germany