Copernicus Climate Change Service

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) “has been designed to respond to environmental and societal challenges associated with climate change”.

The C3S aims at combining expertise from across Europe by providing key indicators on climate change drivers and impacts to support the European climate change policy. The C3S leverages a systematical use of in-situ and satellite-based observations, combined with climate models, to generate these indicators. The C3S web portal further open access to climate datasets, information and news [1].

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C3S web portal (https://climate.copernicus.eu)

Climate Data Store

The Climate Data Store (CDS) is one of the component of the C3S web portal and provides access to the geophysical information needed to analyse the Climate Change Indicators in a consistent, scientific manner. Users can register for free to obtain access to the CDS and its Toolbox.

The CDS provides:

  • estimates of essential climate variables, climate indicators, and relevant information
  • near-real time climate monitoring facility
  • access to multi-model seasonal forecasts
  • climate projections at global and regional scales
  • access to research computing facilities
  • data processing and visualisation tools
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C3S Climate Data Store (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/#!/home)

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In the hands-on exercise, you will download air temperature data from the CDS for the city of Milan and you will learn how to manipulate them in QGIS.

[1]Thépaut, J. N., Dee, D., Engelen, R., & Pinty, B. (2018). The Copernicus Programme and its Climate Change Service. In: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2018, 1591-1593.