Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics

Using personas as means to bridge user needs and climate service design: insights from the Austrian climate scenario evaluation

As climate services transition from pure data provision to tailored decision support systems, they require a mechanism to translate heterogeneous user needs into functional design. Despite the consensus on user-centeredness, systematic frameworks focusing on usability and uptake...

A residual load-based methodology for assessing climate change impacts on electricity systems and identifying extreme events

The planning and operation of electricity systems with high shares of variable intermittent renewable energies (VRE) require a solid understanding of weather impacts, which are becoming increasingly influenced by climate change and associated extreme events. However, there is a l...

The benefit of neighborhood methods for the assimilation of cloud‐affected radiances evaluated in observing‐system simulation experiments

Abstract Deficiencies in the representation of hydrometeors and subgrid‐scale motions in numerical weather prediction models cause systematic differences between satellite observations and their model equivalents, which pose a significant challenge for the assimilation of cloud‐a...