SECTEUR works with private and public sector organizations to understand their requirements for climate data, aiming to deliver better-tailored information to support decision-making.
The project is also conducting a gap and market analysis to help understand additional information needs and the economic potential of such information.
16 months from 01/05/2016 to 31/08/2017
http://climate.copernicus.eu/secteur
General aims
The main goal of SECTEUR is to understand user requirements of climate data by those organizations that are already using or could potentially use this information for improving their activities and decision making processes.
The sectors covered by this project are: Agriculture & Forestry, Coastal areas, Health, Infrastructure, Insurance and Tourism.
CMCC Role
CMCC is leading the Coastal Sector activities and is participating to the Agriculture & Forestry Sector ones.
Expected results
- Inventory of existing needs and user requirements in terms of climate data and climate impact indicators
- Market analysis
Activity
SECTEUR is engaging and interacting with a wide number of organisations across six sectors through surveys, workshops and interviews to establish an inventory of existing needs and user requirements in terms of climate data and climate impact indicators. For example, information on future flooding and heat waves would be important for civil engineering firms when planning new infrastructure designs.
Working with users in each sector will allow us to focus on technical feasibility, market needs and gaps that could be filled with additional research. The ultimate aim is to translate user requirements into freely available climate services that will provide an added value to users for the benefit of society.
In the following link you can find an online survey to improve the understanding of climate data used by many centers/organizations for their activities:
http://www.the-iea.org/secteur-survey/
Partners
- UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- UNIVLEEDS - University of Leeds
- MET OFFICE
- Telespazio VEGA
- Uread - University Of Reading
- Alterra Wageningen
- IC3 - The Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences
- Tecnalia
- BSC - Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion
- TEC - Climate Policy Consulting and Research
- KMatrix
- Oxford University