28/04/2023
FIIAPP has mobilised AEMET staff to strengthen capacities to generate regionalised climate scenarios for the Central American country
Misión de personal de la AEMET a El Salvador
Staff from the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has visited El Salvador on a mission to exchange experiences and best practices with staff from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador (MARN). This activity has been carried out with the aim of strengthening the climate information systems and the capacities to generate regionalised climate scenarios in the Central American country.
The mission took place in the framework of the Euroclima programme, which aims to reduce the impact of climate change and its effects in 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting mitigation, adaptation, resilience, climate investment and biodiversity. The programme is funded by the European Union and implemented by various European cooperation entities and United Nations agencies. In particular, this activity has been coordinated and financed through the FIIAPP.
In the course of this working week, AEMET staff shared information and best practices on key issues in the field of climate information systems. The work agenda has included topics such as the organisation of networks of climatological stations, the construction and management of climate databases, the elaboration of climate data series, the calculation of climate normals and the generation of risk maps and climate scenarios.
All these elements are key to predicting the evolution and behaviour of the climate and designing climate change adaptation programmes. Among other things, a good climate information system makes it possible to:
– Put in place climate early warning devices that make it possible to predict the impact of extreme weather events.
– Make more informed decisions in the field of economic activities on which climatology has an important impact (mainly agriculture). This contributes both to improving the economic performance of the activity and to ensuring an extremely important common good: food security.
– To elaborate, on the basis of regionalised climate scenarios, specific impact and vulnerability studies and to assess the needs for adaptation to climate change in various ecological, economic and social sectors and systems.
The agenda of the visit included, in addition to working meetings at the MARN headquarters, visits such as the one to the San Andrés climate station in the department of La Libertad.
