The Fundamentals of Designing Reliable Climate Information
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Uncertainty, Reliable, Climate information, Climate change, RiskAbstract
Designing climate information to aid in decision-making about the risk of climate change is challenging; it requires a careful analysis and understanding of multiple lines of data in addition to an assessment of the pertinent values, limitations, and uncertainties. Importantly, not all climate scientists agree on a single, all-encompassing approach. Rather, a range of tactics and assumptions are used, which has implications for reliability and uncertainty. These choices and assumptions are often based on the tenets and objectives of climate research rather than the context of the decision. As a result, it offers a technique that allows for debate about many of the decisions made while creating climate data. In order to create a strong basis for the effective assimilation of knowledge, climate information should ensure applicability, be simple to understand, and inspire trust. One of the most common requests from climate risk management and adaptation exercises is for robust and low-uncertainty climatic data. And these have been fully discussed.
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