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Climate services in the UK Met Office – challenges and solutions by Hewitt, Chris D.

“…The development, delivery, uptake and use of climate services face numerous challenges including the fact that decision-makers often need information that is…”
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The Process and Benefits of Developing Prototype Climate Services—Examples in China by Hewitt, Chris D., Golding, Nicola, Zhang, Peiqun, Dunbar, Tyrone, Bett, Philip E., Camp, Joanne, Mitchell, Timothy D., Pope, Edward

“…Changes in climate pose major challenges to society, and so decision-makers need actionable climate information to inform their planning and policies to make…”
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Verification of the 2019 GloSea5 Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Landfall Forecast for East China by Camp, Joanne, Bett, Philip E., Golding, Nicola, Hewitt, Chris D., Mitchell, Timothy D., Scaife, Adam A.

“…A prototype climate service was developed and trialled in early 2019 to provide seasonal forecast of the June-July-August (JJA) tropical cyclone (TC) landfall…”
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Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts for the Yangtze River Basin of China in Summer 2019 from an Improved Climate Service by Bett, Philip E., Martin, Nicola, Scaife, Adam A., Dunstone, Nick, Martin, Gill M., Golding, Nicola, Camp, Joanne, Zhang, Peiqun, Hewitt, Chris D., Hermanson, Leon, Li, Chaofan, Ren, Hong-Li, Liu, Ying, Liu, Min

“…Rainfall forecasts for the summer monsoon season in the Yangtze River basin (YRB) allow decision-makers to plan for possible flooding, which can affect the…”
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Improving the use of climate information in decision-making by Hewitt, Chris D., Stone, Roger C., Tait, Andrew B.

“…To enable society to better manage the risks and opportunities arising from changes in climate, engagement between the users and the providers of climate…”
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Climate services for managing societal risks and opportunities by Hewitt, Chris D., Stone, Roger

“…The Earth’s climate and changes to it impact our lives, well-being and economy in numerous ways, some positive and some negative. Managing the risks that arise…”
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Implementing a knowledge system: Lessons from the global stewardship of climate services by Guido, Zack, Knudson, Chris, Gerlak, Andrea K., Mason, Simon, Hewitt, Chris D., Muth, Meredith

“…•Identify the activities of a global climate service knowledge system (KS).•Analyze the Global Framework of Climate Services as a KS.•Key activities include…”
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Toward a European Climate Prediction System by Hewitt, Chris D., Lowe, Jason A.

“…[...]multiple lines of sometimes conflicting evidence often complicate adaptation planning and risk assessments. The main differences in approach featured…”
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A coupled model study of the Last Glacial Maximum: Was part of the North Atlantic relatively warm? by Hewitt, Chris D., Broccoli, Anthony J., Mitchell, John F. B., Stouffer, Ronald J.

“…A coupled ocean‐atmosphere general circulation model is used to simulate the climates of today and the last glacial maximum (LGM). The model, which does not…”
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The benefits of increasing resolution in global and regional climate simulations for European climate extremes by Iles, Carley E, Vautard, Robert, Strachan, Jane, Joussaume, Sylvie, Eggen, Bernd R, Hewitt, Chris D

“…Many climate extremes, including heatwaves and heavy precipitation events, are projected to worsen under climate change, with important impacts for society…”
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A fully coupled GCM simulation of the climate of the mid-Holocene by Hewitt, Chris D., Mitchell, John F. B.

“…The response of a fully coupled ocean‐atmosphere model to mid‐Holocene insolation forcing is compared with results from an atmospheric model with prescribed…”
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Translational Science for Climate Services: Mapping and Understanding Users’ Climate Service Needs in CSSP China by Opitz-Stapleton, Sarah, Street, Roger, Ye, Qian, Han, Jiarui, Hewitt, Chris D.

“…The Climate Science for Service Partnership China (CSSP China) is a joint program between China and the United Kingdom to build the basis for climate services…”
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Climate service development, delivery and use in Europe at monthly to inter-annual timescales by Buontempo, Carlo, Hewitt, Chris D., Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J., Dessai, Suraje

“…Climate services have become the focus of major international coordination activities over the past few years. In 2012 the Global Framework for Climate…”
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Air quality services on climate time-scales for decision making: An empirical study of China by Wan, Kai, Shackley, Simon, Doherty, Ruth M., Shi, Zongbo, Zhang, Peiqun, Glenk, Klaus, Bo, Xin, Chang, Luyu, Feng, Zhiqiang, Hewitt, Chris D., Wang, Qian, Xu, Jianming, Xu, Jun

“…The provision of climate services for assessing and governing environmental problems such as poor air quality requires interactions between scientists and…”
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Translational Science for Climate Services:Mapping and Understanding Users'Climate Service Needs in CSSP China by Sarah OPITZ-STAPLETON, Roger STREET, Qian YE, Jiarui HAN, Chris D. HEWITT

“…The Climate Science for Service Partnership China(CSSP China)is a joint program between China and the United Kingdom to build the basis for climate services to…”
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Evaluation of coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations of the mid-Holocene using palaeovegetation data from the northern hemisphere extratropics by Wohlfahrt, J, Harrison, S. P, Braconnot, P, Hewitt, C. D, Kitoh, A, Mikolajewicz, U, Otto-Bliesner, B. L, Weber, S. L

“…We have used the BIOME4 biogeography-biochemistry model and comparison with palaeovegetation data to evaluate the response of six ocean-atmosphere general…”
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The effect of ocean dynamics in a coupled GCM simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum by HEWITT, C. D, STOUFFER, R. J, BROCCOLI, A. J, MITCHELL, J. F. B, VALDES, Paul J

“…General circulation models (GCMs) of the climate system are powerful tools for understanding and predicting climate and climate change. The last glacial…”
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The Effect of a Large Freshwater Perturbation on the Glacial North Atlantic Ocean Using a Coupled General Circulation Model by Hewitt, C. D., Broccoli, A. J., Crucifix, M., Gregory, J. M., Mitchell, J. F. B., Stouffer, R. J.

“…The commonly held view of the conditions in the North Atlantic at the last glacial maximum, based on the interpretation of proxy records, is of large-scale…”
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