Using TaToo services to enhance information retrieval about climate change consequences – Demonstration of the Climate Twins scenario

Abstract

TaToo’s Validation Scenario (VS) 1 “Climate Twins” is a web application that tries to bridge the gap between scientific climate change model outputs and the scientists’ problem of transporting climate change implications to a broader public audience. To allow “real world insights” about future climate impact and appropriate adaptation, one can look at model regions, where the current climate appears similar to an expected future climate of a point of interest (POI). We call such region pairs with similar climate conditions (at different times) “Climate Twins”. From these (remote) current Climate Twin region parts one can learn “hands on” how future climate impacts may be experienced in the POI and how to adapt there to the changing climate conditions, expected in the future. In contrast to the other two TaToo VS Climate Twins is unique in the way it is making use of TaToo’s services, i.e. its way of using TaToo as a lookup facility to find additional information on a specific topic. The aim of this paper is the description of the Climate Twins application, the lookup process of additional information as well as Climate Twins’ momentary ontology concept.