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UK Met Office launches climate service for local authorities
Met Office worked with Esri UK to enable local authorities to visualise climate challenges, explore projections and communicate a specific climate story.
The UK’s Met Office has launched the Local Authority Climate Service to provide local authorities with easy access to tailored information on climate change and support local climate change adaptation planning.
The Met Office has worked with location and spatial data analytics technology specialist, Esri UK, to build the new operational service to help local authorities visualise climate challenges, explore climate projections and communicate a climate story specific to their local areas.
Critical climate information
The service will equip local authorities with critical climate information helping them to make informed adaptation plans and decisions, empowering organisations to increase their resilience and meet statutory requirements.
The Local Authority Climate Service is funded by Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) following a commitment in the third National Adaptation Programme, the government’s plan to adapt the UK to climate change, which aims to reduce the costs from climate change impacts and make our economy and society more resilient.
“Testing the new Local Authority Climate Service tool from the Met Office has provided Milton Keynes with a stronger evidence base to prepare the council’s services against future climate impacts”
“Local authorities are key in building resilience to climate change in our communities across the UK,” said Professor Jason Lowe, head of climate services at the Met Office. “It is vital that our climate projections are available in a format that makes them most accessible and useful for local authorities to apply in assessing risks and starting to plan how to best adapt to our changing climate.
“By working with Esri UK we’ve embedded our data into a range of industry leading geospatial tools to ensure tailored climate information can be used by the people who need it, and with suitable guidance to help them apply it. We know our climate is changing so it’s important we adapt to the extremes we’re likely to see more of. This new tool is a step forward in assisting local authorities minimise the impacts of climate change for the communities they serve.”
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Councillor Shanika Mahendran, cabinet member for sustainability at Milton Keynes City Council, added: “Testing the new Local Authority Climate Service tool from the Met Office has provided Milton Keynes with a stronger evidence base to prepare the council’s services against future climate impacts. We are looking forward to continuing exploring and implementing this resource across all services.”
The Local Authority Climate Service is built using Esri technology to enable Met Office Climate Data to be viewed geospatially. It enables data to be viewed and analysed on a map and uses ArcGIS Online to overlay climate data with other open data or data specific to the user.
“Geospatial software makes this critical data easier to use, opening it up to a much broader audience, which significantly extends its value and benefits”
“The Local Authority Climate Service is another significant milestone in our partnership with the Met Office,” said managing director of Esri UK, Pete Wilkinson. “GIS is the natural delivery mechanism to place authoritative climate data in the hands of those that need it most, supporting better adaption planning at a local level. Geospatial software makes this critical data easier to use, opening it up to a much broader audience, which significantly extends its value and benefits.”
The Local Authority Climate Service has been developed with input from future users to ensure it provides the tools and data required. The service is fully available for use and as the Met Office learns more about user requirements, feedback is invited to help drive further improvements.
Climate Data Portal
The new service builds on the Met Office Climate Data Portal. The free tool makes it easier for businesses or government organisations to combine open climate data with their own data and reveal the future impact of extreme conditions on their operations, including heatwaves, floods or droughts. The project is part of a strategic partnership between the Met Office and Esri UK which have been working together for over 20 years.
The Climate Data Portal is supported as part of the Hadley Centre Climate Programme (HCCP) and is, in part, funded by Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and supports the work of Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and other UK government departments.
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