Description
The project "Local Warming" aims to create an easy gateway to a systematized collection of data and information for use by all projects under Program AdaPT and for adaptation practitioners in Portugal. It will compile, produce and disseminate valuable and scientific past and future climatic information and indicators, processed in a user friendly way and made available to the public. The main goal of this project is to increase awareness and education in climate change. The following phases and expected outcomes are foreseen: 1. Review of adaptation in climate national sites. 2. Identification of user needs. 3. Prototype website. 4. Final website design 5. Production and preparation of the scientific information. 6. Release of "Local Warming" website 7. Monitoring of project impact and success The final outcome of this project is a LOCAL WARMING WEBSITE as an easy access platform for dissemination of the results obtained in the project, namely: time series, climate change and regional climate indicators.
Summary of project results
The objective of the "Local Warming Website" project was the production and publication of an Internet portal on Climate in Portugal, whose aim was to become the thematic reference platform, not only for the general public but also for specific sectors In terms of the dissemination of information/data translated in the historical series and projections at National and Regional level. The portal provides several climatic indicators that quantify the occurrence and risk of different atmospheric or indicators that result from complex algorithms that combine model variables. The basis of the construction of these indicators refer to observations and simulated projections of the current, past and future climate, from multiple combinations of CORDEX models (EURO-CORDEX program) and forcing general circulation models. The main objective of this project is to contribute to increase the capacity to assess vulnerability to climate change and to raise awareness and education on climate change. The published results were obtained using past climatic data processing and the IPCC climate projection data AR5 (CORDEX project). This task involved all the calculations required for the disaggregation of data to NUTS3 at various time periods.
Summary of bilateral results