Agricultural Sector Survey

ASPECT researchers launch a survey to explore understanding, potential use, and improvements for an early-stage climate information prototype in the agricultural sector.

Extreme weather events are already affecting crops across Europe, causing substantial economic losses. However, user-oriented climate information tools that support decision-making across multiple time horizons remain limited. The European project ASPECT aims to bridge this gap by providing science-based, practical information to help agricultural sector users adapt to a changing climate.

For this purpose, climate scientists at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have co-developed a short bulletin together with our Super User (Codorniu, based in Catalonia) for people working in the agricultural sector. It provides a quick and easy way for you to explore new technologies and presentation formats for seasonal and decadal climate predictions. It currently features two key indicators, frost days and growing degree days, which will be expanded and refined over the coming year. ASPECT researchers from the University of Leeds are testing the upscaling potential of this early-stage prototype. Your answers and feedback will help improve the provision of climate information for the agricultural sector, and ultimately make Europe more resilient to climate variability and change.

The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and is aimed at people in the agricultural sector, and who have either used or could potentially use weather/climate information.