Handbook of Climate Services

This book explores climate services, including projections, descriptive information, analyses, assessments, and an overview of current trends.  

Due to the pressures now being put on the world’s climate, it is vital to gather and share reliable climate observation and projection data, which may be tailored for use by different groups. In other words, it is essential to offer climate services. But despite the growth in the use of these services, there are very few specialist publications on this topic. This book addresses that need.

Apart from presenting studies and the results of research projects, the book also offers an overview of the wide range of means available for providing and using climate services. In addition, it features case studies that provide illustrative and inspiring examples of how climate services can be optimally deployed.

Part 1: Principles and Applications of Climate Services.- Introducing Climate Services and their Applications.- A Coastal Climate Service Framework for Community-based Adaptation to Rising Sea-levels.- Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Farms and Its Contribution to Global Warming.- Part 2: Case Studies on Climate Services.- Climatological Global Solar UV Index: Measurement and Health Issues in Malta.- Climate Services for Climate Resilient Planning of Natural and Cultural Heritage.- Serbian Experiences.- Food Security in the Face of a Climate Change at Kafa Biosphere Reserve, Ethiopia.- Climate Information Services and their Potential on Adaptation and Mitigation: Experiences from Flood Affected Regions in Bangladesh.