Steinbeis Research Center ClimateDNA

• Provide state-of-the-art climate risk assessments and communicate those risks to relevant stakeholders
• Provide reliable weather and crop forecasts on strategic time scales

• Climate change impact assessments
• Climate and weather extreme assessments
• Climate and weather predictions
• Crop forecasts
• Forecast based financing in the agricultural sector

• First generic software tool to do data-driven forecasts of meteorological variables (e.g. monsoonal rain, extreme heat) and agricultural variables (e.g. expected harvest losses, drought) at relevant lead times. The flexibility of this tool fosters the co-design of early warning systems with stakeholders in the agricultural sector. The first prototype has been successfully applied to several case studies
• 4 year climate services project with major insurance company on hurricane risks in Florida
• Real-time online tool to detect and forecast atmospheric conditions linked to extreme weather

Project Managers:

• Dr. Marlene Kretschmer
• Dr. Dim Coumou
• Dr. Kai Kornhuber