Climate and water services
of the next-generation following a human-centred, social & behaviourally informed approach, and integrating local data and knowledge.
Funded projects
EU Horizon 2020
2021-2025 "I-CISK: Innovating climate services through integrating scientific and local knowledge", 5 M Euros, 13 partners (Principal Investigator, PI)
2021-2025 "CLINT: Climate Intelligence: extreme events detection, attribution and adaptation design using machine learning", (nr 101003876), 6 M Euros, 15 partners (PI)
2017-2020 "S2S4E: Sub-seasonal to Seasonal climate forecasting for Energy", (nr 776786), 4.8 M Euro, 12 partners (PI)
2017-2020 "CLARA: Climate forecast enabled knowledge services", (nr 730482), 4 M Euros, 10 partners (co-PI)
Copernicus Programme Emergency Management Service (CEMS)
2018-2021 "WaterSIS- operational", (nr C3S_424), 2 M Euros, SMHI as Contractor (co-PI)
2019-2020 "Demonstrating the potential of the Copernicus Climate Data Store for Kenyan smallholder farmers: a scalable adaptation services approach" (nr C3S_429_Lot1), 75,000 Euros, SMHI as sub-contractor, (co-PI)
2017-2019 "GLORIOUS: Global users in the Copernicus Climate Change Service", (nr C3S_422_Lot1), 2 M Euros, SMHI as Contractor (co-PI)
2015-2017 "SWICCA: Service for water indicators in climate change adaptation", (nr C3S_441_Lot1), 2 M Euros, SMHI as Contractor (co-PI)
Swedish Energimyn-digheten
2021-2024 "The role of hydropower as a regulatory resource in a renewable energy system with climate impact and increased internationalization of electricity markets", (nr 52095-1), 400 K Euros, 3 partners (PI)
2018-2021 "Long-term forecasts of wind and hydropower supply in a fluctuating climate - Importance for production planning and investments in energy storage and power transmission", (nr 46412-1), 400 K Euros, 3 partners (SMHI's Project Manager)
EU FP7
2013-2016 "EUPORIAS - EUropean Provision Of Regional Impact Assessment on a Seasonal to decadal timescale", (nr 308291), 9 M Euros, 24 partners (SMHI's Project Manager)
Recommended references
Crochemore, L., and Coauthors, 2024: A framework for joint verification and evaluation of seasonal climate services across socio-economic sectors. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0026.1
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Shyrokaya, A., Messori, G., Pechlivanidis, I., Pappenberger, F., Cloke, H., & Di Baldassarre, G., 2024. 'Significant relationships between drought indicators and impacts for the 2018–2019 drought in Germany', Environmental Research Letters, 19, 014037, DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad10d9
Shyrokaya, A., Pappenberger, F., Pechlivanidis, I., Messori, G., Khatami, S., Mazzoleni,M., & Di Baldassarre, G., 2023. 'Advances and gaps in the science and practice of impact-based forecasting of droughts', WIREs Water, e1698. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1698
Cantone, C., Ivars Grape, H., El Habash, S., & Pechlivanidis, I. G., 2023, 'A co-generation success story: Improving drinking water management through hydro-climate services', Climate Services, 31, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100399
Hurkmans, R. T., van den Hurk, B., Schmeits, M., Wetterhall, F., & Pechlivanidis, I. G., 2023, 'Seasonal streamflow forecasting for fresh water reservoir management in the Netherlands: an assessment of multiple prediction systems', J. Hydrometeor., https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0107.1
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Crochemore L., Cantone C., Pechlivanidis I.G., Photiadou C., 2021, 'How does seasonal forecast performance influence decision-making? Insights from a serious game', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0169.1
Giuliani M., Crochemore L., Pechlivanidis I.G., Castelletti A., 2020, 'From skill to value: isolating the influence of end user behavior on seasonal forecast assessment', Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 5891-5902, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5891-2020
Wörman A., Bertacchi Uvo C., Brandimarte L., Busse S., Crochemore L., Girons Lopez M., Hao S., Pechlivanidis I.G., Riml J., 2020, 'Virtual energy storage gain resulting from the spatio-temporal coordination of hydropower over Europe', Applied Energy, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115249
Contreras E., Herrero J., Crochemore L., Pechivanidis I.G., Photiadou C., Aguilar C., Polo M.J., 2020, 'Advances in the definition of needs and specifications for a climate service tool aimed at small hydropower plants operation and management', Energies, 13, 1827, https://doi.org/10.3390/en13071827
Crochemore L., Ramos M-H., Pechlivanidis I.G., 2020, 'Can continental model convey useful seasonal hydrologic information at the catchment scale?', Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR025700. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025700