A special Climate Now live debate delved into how climate data, in particular those provided by the Copernicus services and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), are shaping European policies. Moving away from the traditional “virtual” format of the show, the debate hosted by euronews’ journalist Jeremy Wilks was held in person in a crowded studio at the euronews headquarters in Brussels. Director-General of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Florence Rabier participated in the discussion along with Vicky Pollard, Head of Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Climate Action, and two European Parliament Members, Delara Burkhardt (Germany, Social Democratic Party) and Michal Wiezik (Slovakia, Renew Europe.) All of the guests had a strong climate policy and scientific background. Florence Rabier introduced user- and decision-ready interactive tools already available from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring (CAMS) and the Copernicus Climate Change (C3S) services, such as the Interactive Climate Atlas and recently released Climate Pulse, both of which offer intuitive access to a wealth of climate information. The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas is a visual and intuitive interface to some of the major international climate change monitoring and projection datasets, making it possible to create, download and share maps, charts and other visualisations, such as the climate stripes . Climate Pulse, the latest addition to the C3S offer, provides near real-time temperature data for the oceans and the atmosphere, allowing us to observe the yearly, monthly and daily evolution of temperatures and how they compare to the average for the 1991-2020 reference period, using C3S ERA5 reanalysis. “We are providing science-based facts, unbiased information based on the latest science and technology, and we are benefitting from the huge investment made by the European Union in the last 20 years or so in satellites and technology, in […]
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