The presentation of this new tool was presided over by the Third Vice President of the Government, Teresa Ribera, the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, and the President of the CSIC, Rosa Menéndez
The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has officially presented today the Interactive Atlas of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which collates climate information from regions around the world and allows to obtain projections of different levels of global warming in different regions of the planet. The new Atlas was presented at an institutional event at the CSIC headquarters in Madrid, which was attended by the Third Vice President and Minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, the President of CSIC, Rosa Menéndez, and the Vice Chancellor for Research and Science Policy of the University of Cantabria, Luigi Dell'Olio. The president of the IPCC, Hoesung Lee, and the secretary general of the IPCC, Abdalah Mokssit, also intervened remotely.
Presentation of the IPCC interactive atlas at CSIC headquarters / Vinca Page (CSIC)
The Interactive Atlas, developed by CSIC researchers and the technology-based company Predictia (which carried out the technical development), makes it possible to visualize, by region and over time, different foreseeable scenarios depending on the evolution of the variables governing global warming. It provides access to a wide range of global and regional climate information (maps, series, tables, etc.). In addition, it synthesizes all climate changes region by region, using a new set of 46 land and 12 ocean regions that can be consulted online free of charge.
The development of the Interactive Atlas has been led by José Manuel Gutiérrez, researcher at the Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), a joint center of the CSIC and the Universidad de Cantabria, and has involved the participation of 20 researchers and technicians from IFCA and Predictia (who have been collaborating authors of the atlas).
Sergio Vicente Serrano, from the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), was the author of chapter 11 of the sixth IPCC report, which analyzes extreme phenomena and, in particular, droughts. Together with Gutiérrez and Vicente, two other Spanish authors participate in the IPCC report: Sergio Faria, from the Basque Centre for Climate Change, and Francisco Doblas, from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
New web tool on climate change
The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, presented on August 9, reveals that climate change is already affecting different regions of the world through different combinations of extreme phenomena, such as heat waves, intense rainfall, drought, loss of ice, etc. The forecast shows these changes will be generalized from two degrees onwards.
The interactive atlas makes it possible to analyze this regional information through two components: the regional information module (which provides access to different climate change variables and indices obtained from the main datasets used in the report, such as CMIP5, CMIP6 and CORDEX), and the regional synthesis module (which summarizes and synthesizes the main results of the report on the regional assessment of climate change for different types of phenomena: heat, droughts, sea level, etc.). All this means that the atlas not only supports the chapters of the report, but also the summary addressed to policy makers.
CSIC has provided human and technical support to the development of the interactive atlas within the framework of the CSIC's Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform Climate and Climate Services (PTI-Clima).
Access the video presentation of the interactive atlas.
