The Framework Agreement between
the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Preparing for the Future:
Designing Climate Products and Models for India (PREPARE)
Work Package 1


Objective

The proposed work planned to continue with TERI's ongoing research with the objective of improving understanding of climate processes and its linkages at regional scales, especially under the growing extreme climate event narrative using state-of-art dynamical modelling products, such as those from the CORDEX Project, and statistical downscaling techniques.

The project also envisaged carrying out development of a multi-temporal forecasting system, specific to India, which would help tailor climate services for stakeholders and users' needs.

Main Activities

  • Engineering for the future: Extreme event analysis

    This work package focussed on the analysis and modelling of extreme events for engineering purposes. i.e. to produce outputs that are useful for building resilient infrastructure or for wind energy applications.

  • Development of a multi-temporal forecasting system for India with focus on water resources

    This work package involved analysis and modelling of climate variability of precipitation and temperature regimes at multi-temporal scales. i.e. weather phenomena that occur from seasonal to decadal frequency.

  • Climate services products

    The information of extreme events and frequency curves from #1 and multi-temporal forecasting model developed under #2 were utilized to generate policy relevant information (climatic indices, drought indices, warm and cold spells, or growing season length) that would be useful at the sub-national scales guiding policy and decision making.

  • Scientific exchange and outreach

    This activity focussed on organization of yearly research schools in collaboration with the project partner on various themes of ‘climate science, modelling and services’ for the duration of the proposed project. This work package also involves the dissemination of project research products in the form of scholarly articles via popular science communication channels and journals.

Norwegian Partner: NORCE