And by making it known
In order to put knowledge within everyone's reach, Météo-France offers services adapted to everyone's needs. The establishment makes regionalised projections available by enriching the Drias multi-agency portal, the future of the climate, and allows everyone to visualise the climate of yesterday and tomorrow at the scale of their region on Climat HD. Météo-France thus fully plays its role as a bridge between the scientific world and society.
One of the actions of the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change provides for the creation of a resource centre to enable institutional and economic players, communities and citizens to share expertise, experiences and results in terms of climate change adaptation measures. In partnership with Cerema and Ademe, Météo-France has prepared the implementation of this tool which will be operational in 2020.
In order to feed into the institution's climate services offer, the climatological assets of old data have been consolidated with the insertion of 3.8 million new data items. The long homogenised temperature and precipitation series, intended to characterise the past evolution of the climate, are also regularly updated in mainland France and overseas territories at the expected rate (about 15% of series updated each year). A digital climate archive management tool has been set up and aims to identify, organise and make available all climate archives since 1850.
The Drias portal, which allows socio-economic players to appropriate scientific data on climate change, has been enriched with new services for mountain regions to support adaptation to climate change in these regions.
The services made available are new educational resources as well as interactive visualisation of maps.
The new Drias site thus gives access to a variation by massif (23 for the Alps and 11 for the Pyrenees) and by altitude level; basic climate variables (temperature, precipitation) and indices derived from the number of days with frost, maximum temperature record and snow cover impact indices. www.drias-climat.fr.
ClimatHD: more complete, generalised data
To offer everyone - citizens, journalists, decision-makers - the opportunity to assess the extent of current global warming, Météo-France offers Climat HD, a simple tool, accessible to all, offering an integrated vision of climate change and its impacts since the beginning of measurements until 2100, at the scale of the country and its regions. In 2019, a section dedicated to climate change on Reunion Island was added. A unique digital tool in France, Climat HD provides access to clear information on climate change using simple graphics and key messages. It allows the visualisation of past and future climate changes at national and regional scales. It is fed by observations for past climate and by climate projections carried out by Météo-France and the entire international scientific community. The tool is regularly updated to complete the observation series, add new indicators and integrate data from the work of the IPCC.