UC Expert joins workgroup of the World Meteorological Organization
WMO develops multi-annual reports on the state of the climate.
English version: Diana Taborda
Mónica Rodrigues, researcher at CEGOT - Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Coimbra, has been invited to join the workgroup of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which will draw up the Decennial Report for the period 2011-2020.
In 2010, WMO started working on multiannual reports on the state of the climate, including time scales of 5 to 10 years. The multiannual scale allows for the collection of sufficient data for a retrospective analysis of long-term signals in the assessment of climate indicators and extreme events.
According to Mónica Rodrigues, "an outlook of the last decade (2011-2020) gives us an important time window to analyse in hindsight the main climate indicators and their actual and potential impacts on sustainable development. This report will be an essential tool for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Global Inventory, and for the Standing Committee on Climate Services (SC-CLI)".
In this process, "as it happens with the annual State of the Global Climate reports, the ten-year report 2011-2020 will present the updated Global Climate change Indicators. To ensure the consistency and accuracy of data across all indicators, inputs come from a variety of sources, and include international climate centres, national hydrological and meteorological services, research institutions and universities, scientific agencies, as well as WMO programmes", claims the expert.
"In order to collect essential information on long-term trends in temperature and precipitation, the World Meteorological Organization will collect decennial data from the various countries through a digital survey associated with the Country Profile database," adds Mónica Rodrigues.
The ten-year report for the period 2011-2020 is expected to be published in 2023, at the same time as the Global Inventory of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.