Barriers to using climate information: Challenges in communicating probabilistic forecasts to decision-makers

Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research

Volumn 45, Issue , 2016, Pages 95-113

  Davis, Melanie ^a   Lowe, Rachel ^a   Steffen, Sophie ^b   Doblas Reyes, Francisco ^a,c,d   Rodó, Xavier ^a,c  

^a Climate Dynamics and Impacts Unit Institut Català de Ciències del Clima IC3   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate; Climate services; Communication; Forecast; Probability; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013870089     PISSN: 18789897     EISSN: 22136959     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20161-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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