The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) provides free and open access to its state-of-the-art, quality-assured climate data and insights to help inform climate adaptation and mitigation strategies worldwide.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service data feeds climate adaptation and mitigation strategies at national, regional and international level ensuring that EU climate policies can be informed by the best available evidence.
C3S helps its users by:
- Fostering policy development: C3S’s information helps policymakers better protect citizens from climate-related hazards, such as extreme weather events.
- Supporting adaptation and mitigation strategies: C3S helps Europe mitigate and adapt to climate change in domains such as water management, agriculture, energy, and infrastructure.
- Promoting new services: by providing open access to climate data, C3S opens the door to new, environmentally-friendly innovations and applications. The service’s open data has widely contributed to the recent machine learning-based weather forecasting revolution.
- Informing society: C3S provides a range of reports, products and applications to inform audiences about climate change and its impacts.
The Climate Data Store (CDS) is a cornerstone of the service, delivering reliable and free access to up-to-date, high-quality climate data. The service curates data for specific stakeholders, such as scientists, policymakers, industry and a wide range of sectors such as energy, insurance, and agriculture, to name a few. C3S also provides technical support to help users most effectively leverage its climate data.
Through CDS, users can access online and in-person training events across Europe. C3S data such as the reanalysis dataset ERA5 provides an important added value helping advance global research and was key to developing the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning based weather forecasting models…
Source: European Union Space Programmes – Copernicus’ Earth Observation
