Title
An environmental watch system for the andean countries: El observatorio andino
Date Issued
01 December 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Muñoz A.
López P.
Velásquez R.
Monterrey L.
León G.
Ruiz F.
Recalde C.
Cadena J.
Mejía R.
Paredes M.
Reyes C.
Carrasco G.
Castellón Y.
Villarroel C.
Quintana J.
Urdaneta A.
Publisher(s)
American Meteorological Society
Abstract
Observatorio Andino (OA) was established in 2008 by The Centro de Modelado Científico (CMC) in collaboration with Climate information applied to agricultural risk management in the Andean countries (CIIFEN). The OA main goal is to provide a collaborative network that ultimately increases the efficiency of the decision-making processes, especially in terms of getting more accurate forecasts and exchanging experiences on data, information, and scientific products, all of which is done with a standardized methodology and a Web-sharing service. The Observatorio Andino follows a three level hierarchical model execution flux, with the same approach for both short-term and seasonal products. In order to facilitate the validation process, a spatial map for each time slice of interest involving the differences and/or the anomaly correlations between model output and observations, is generated. The OA makes extensive use of its wiki, webinars, and video conferences for standardizing the methodologies.
Start page
1645
End page
1652
Volume
91
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agricultura
Investigación climática
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-79251517744
Source
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
ISSN of the container
00030007
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus