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    • Assessing the added-value of near-term decadal climate information for the agricultural sector 

      Solaraju Murali, Balakrishnan; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Caron, Louis-Philippe; Doblas Reyes, Francisco (2018-10-18)
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      The study aims to explore the usage of these recent decadal predictions and illustrate the added-value of initialized predictions over non-initialized climate simulations for building a reliable climate service for ...
    • Challenges in the selection of atmospheric circulation patterns for the wind energy sector 

      Torralba, Verónica; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Cortesi, Nicola; Manrique‐Suñén, Andrea; Lledó, Llorenç; Marcos, Raül; Soret, Albert; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco (Wiley, 2020-10)
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      Abstract Atmospheric circulation patterns that prevail for several consecutive days over a specific region can have consequences for the wind energy sector as they may lead to a reduction of the wind power generation, ...
    • Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP 

      Eyring, Veronika; Bock, Lisa; Lauer, Axel; Righi, Mattia; Schlund, Manuel; Andela, Bouwe; Arnone, Enrico; Bellprat, Omar; Brötz, Björn; Caron, Louis-Philippe; Carvalhais, Nuno; Cionni, Irene; Cortesi, Nicola; Crezee, Bas; Davin, Edouard L.; Davini, Paolo; Debeire, Kevin; Mora, Lee, de; Deser, Clara; Docquier, David; Earnshaw, Paul; Ehbrecht, Carsten; Gier, Bettina K.; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Goodman, Paul; Hagemann, Stefan; Hardiman, Steven; Hassler, Birgit; Hunter, Alasdair; Kadow, Christopher; Kindermann, Stephan; Koirala, Sujan; Koldunov, Nikolay; Lejeune, Quentin; Lembo, Valerio; Lovato, Tomas; Lucarini, Valerio; Massonnet, François; Müller, Benjamin; Pandde, Amarjiit; Pérez-Zanón, Núria; Phillips, Adam; Predoi, Valeriu; Russell, Joellen; Sellar, Alistair; Serva, Federico; Stacke, Tobias; Swaminathan, Ranjini; Torralba, Verónica; Vegas-Regidor, Javier; Hardenberg, Jost, von; Weigel, Katja; Zimmermann, Klaus (Copernicus Publications, 2020)
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      The Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is a community diagnostics and performance metrics tool designed to improve comprehensive and routine evaluation of Earth system models (ESMs) participating in the Coupled ...
    • How decadal predictions entered the climate services arena: an example from the agriculture sector 

      Solaraju Murali, Balakrishnan; Bojovic, Dragana; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Nicodemou, Andria; Terrado Casanovas, Marta; Caron, Louis-Philippe; Doblas Reyes, Francisco (Elsevier, 2022-08)
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      Predicting the variations in climate for the coming 1–10 years is of great interest for decision makers, as this time horizon coincides with the strategic planning of stakeholders from climate-vulnerable sectors such as ...
    • Multi-model forecast quality assessment of CMIP6 decadal predictions 

      Delgado-Torres, Carlos; Donat, Markus; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Caron, Louis-Philippe; Athanasiadis, Panos J.; Bretonnière, Pierre-Antoine; Dunstone, Nick; Chi Ho, An; Nicoli, Dario; Pankatz, Klaus; Paxian, Andreas; Pérez Zanón, Núria; Samso Cabre, Margarida; Solaraju Murali, Balakrishnan; Soret Miravet, Albert; Doblas Reyes, Francisco (2022-06)
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      Decadal climate predictions are a relatively new source of climate information for inter-annual to decadal time scales, which is of increasing interest for users. Forecast quality assessment is essential to identify windows ...
    • Multi-model seasonal forecasts for the wind energy sector 

      Lee, Doo Young; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco; Torralba, Verónica; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube (Springer, 2019-09)
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      An assessment of the forecast quality of 10 m wind speed by deterministic and probabilistic verification measures has been carried out using the original raw and two statistical bias-adjusted forecasts in global coupled ...
    • Multi-year prediction of European summer drought conditions for the agricultural sector 

      Solaraju Murali, Balakrishnan; Caron, Louis-Philippe; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J (2019-11-27)
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      Decadal climate prediction, where climate models are initialized with the contemporaneous state of the Earth system and run for a decade into the future, represents a new source of near-term climate information to better ...
    • Overview of near-term decadal climate prediction and its applications: Technical note 

      Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Caron, Louis-Philippe; Solaraju Murali, Balakrishnan; Doblas Reyes, Francisco (2018-07-15)
      Research report
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      This document provides a synthesis of the current knowledge on decadal prediction. The document is divided in three parts. The first section provides an overview of the external forcings and the slow climate oscillations ...
    • Time-varying impact of climate on maize and wheat yields in France since 1900 

      Ceglar, Andrej; Zampieri, Matteo; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Ciais, Philippe; Schauberge, Bernhard; Velde, Marijn Van der (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020)
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      Climate services that can anticipate crop yields can potentially increase the resilience of food security in the face of climate change. These services are based on our understanding of how crop yield anomalies are related ...
    • Uncertainty in near-surface wind speed trends at seasonal time scales 

      Torralba, Verónica; Torras-Reyes, Francisco J.; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2017-05-04)
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      Observational studies have identified wind speed trends in the last decades [1,2] attributed to several factors such as changes in the land use, aerosol emissions or atmospheric circulation. However, in spite of the potential ...
    • Uncertainty in recent near-surface wind speed trends: a global reanalysis intercomparison 

      Torralba, Verónica; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube (IOP Publishing, 2017-11-06)
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      Reanalysis products have become a tool for wind energy users requiring information about the wind speed long-term variability. These users are sensitive to many aspects of the observational references they employ to estimate ...
    • What have we learnt from EUPORIAS climate service prototypes? 

      Buontempo, Carlo; Manlon, Helen M.; Bruno Soares, Marta; Christel, Isadora; Soubeyroux, Jean-Michel; Viel, Christian; Calmanti, Sandro; Bosi, Lorenzo; Falloon, Pete; Palin, Erika J.; Vanvyve, Emilie; Torralba, Verónica; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco; Pope, Edward C.D.; Newton, Paula; Liggins, Felicity (Elsevier, 2018-01)
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      The international effort toward climate services, epitomised by the development of the Global Framework for Climate Services and, more recently the launch of Copernicus Climate Change Service has renewed interest in the ...
    • What have we learnt from EUPORIAS climate service prototypes? 

      Buontempo, Carlo; Manlon, Helen M.; Bruno Soares, Marta; Christel, Isadora; Soubeyroux, Jean-Michel; Viel, Christian; Calmanti, Sandro; Bosi, Lorenzo; Falloon, Pete; Palin, Eika J.; Vanvyve, Emilie; Torralba, Verónica; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco; Pope, Edward C.D.; Newton, Paula; Liggins, Felicity (Elsevier, 2018-01)
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      The international effort toward climate services, epitomised by the development of the Global Framework for Climate Services and, more recently the launch of Copernicus Climate Change Service has renewed interest in the ...