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Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather, or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period for averaging these variables is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization. The relevant quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation and wind. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system. web sources:
- Canadian Climate Data and ScenariosScenarios
Scenarios can be thought of as stories of possible futures. They allow the description of factors that are difficult to quantify. In the context of climate change scenarios are used for the future development of factors such as governance, social structures, future population growth, technical development and agriculture. These descriptions are essential to model the future climate. (CCDS-Canada) - Cal-adapt California (CAL-USA)
- Climate ChangeClimate Change
Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings such as modulations of the solar cycles, volcanic eruptions and persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use. Note that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: 'a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods'. The UNFCCC thus makes a distinction between climate change attributable to human activities altering the atmospheric composition, and climate variability attributa Australia (CCA-Australia) - CIRCLE-2 Climate Adapatation Infobase
- Climate-ADAPT: European Climate AdaptationAdaptation
The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems, adaptation seeks to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate and its effects. Platform & Climate-ADAPT map viewer - Climate KIC
- Climate4Impact - Portal Interface for the Climate ImpactClimate Impact
See Impact Assessment Communities (IS ENES) - CORDEX (WCRP)
- ECRA - European Climate Research Alliance
- EEA - European Environment Agency
- European Research Area (ERA)
- ERA-NET CIRCLE 2
- ERA Portal Austria
- European Water Archive (EWA, EuroFRIEND, BfG)
- ESA - European Space Agency
- Future Earth
- FP 7 on CORDIS
- H2020 Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials
- HYPEweb (Europe, SMHI)
- Impact 2°C (HZG)
- SWICCA: Service for Water Indicators in Climate Change Adaptation
- US-National Climate Assessment (NCA-USA)
- Vulnerable and Adaptation Wizard (UKCIP)