E. Sanchez, J.A. López, E. Rodríguez (erodriguezc@aemet.es)

AEMET, Madrid, Spain

Contribution of AEMET to EUPORIAS

Country presence:

• Headquarters in Madrid. Territorial Delegations in each Autonomous Community

• 11 Forecasting and Monitoring Groups and one National Forecasting Centre.

• Izaña Atmospheric Observatory in the Canary Islands. 

Resources:

• Personnel: Staff of over 1,400, • Annual budget: approx.100 M€

Research in climate related areas:

• Climate modelling and evaluation• Generation of downscaled climate change scenarios• Downscaling algorithms• Analysis of series• Seasonal forecasting: support to oper. activities DS + Combination• Analysis of extremes• Climate variability

http://www.aemet.es

Contribution to EUPORIAS• WP12 Assessment of users' needs

Expert interviews with key water, forest fires and tourism stakeholders [1 pm]

• WP32 Uncertainty framework Assessment and combination of climate predictions using a Bayesian approach [20 pm]

• WP33 Communicating levels of confidence Review of existing approaches [2 pm]

• WP42 Climate services prototypes Assessment of usefulness and limitations of the prototypes [4 pm]

RPSS (Ranked Probability Skill Score, Epstein 1969) Lead time 1