** Reliable seasonal climate forecasts to adapt to acute physical climate hazards

Credits

Weather Logistics Ltd.

Weather and climate (satellite) data sourcing, extraction, processing, data preparation and analyses (including forecast, observation and climatology maps and techniques) have been developed by Weather Logistics Ltd®. The company maintains ownership of its data and distributes its own weather and climate products / services using a unique predictive software algorithm. Seasonal climate forecasts and analysis charts are its sole property and are not for resale or distribution to third parties without consent. Open data sources are the foundation of this software development and are subject to post-processing and modification to derive output variables. Quality and validation screening processes are conducted internally, however, to ensure the best quality data independent assessments of the forecast and observational datasets have been conducted externally.

Daily precipitation forecasts validated impartially and independently by The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) through UKRI/ A4I/ Innovate UK funding. The NPL is the UK's National Metrology Institute, providing measurement capability that underpins the UK's prosperity and quality of life. The Analysis for Innovators (A4I) Competition has been running since 2016. A4I is a very different type of programme from Innovate UK's usual grant funding competitions. It is focused on helping individual companies solve tricky and, perhaps, long running technical problems affecting existing processes, products or services. Innovate UK is the UK's innovation agency who drive productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas. It connects businesses to the partners, customers and investors that can help them turn ideas into commercially successful products and services and business growth. Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation. For more information visit www.innovateuk.ukri.org

Contains modified data from Deutscher Wetterdienst / Open Data Center, gridded data reproduced graphically (CDC - OpenData), 2020.

Contains modified data from MESCAN-SURFEX/ UERRA regional renalysis for Europe from 1961 to 2019, https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.dd7c6d66

Contains modified SPREAD (Spanish PREcipitation At Daily scale) [Dataset], 2017.

Contains modified STEAD (Spanish Temperature At Daily scale) [Dataset], 2017.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2023. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

No external providers are responsible for the quality or any inaccuracies that may result from our products. External data sources are not limited to; NASA (GISS), NOAA / NCEP, ECMWF Re-Analyses (ERA), UK Meteorological Office / Public Weather Service (PWS); with no need for acknowledgement except for the following statement.

®Crown Copyright 2009. The UK Climate Projections data have been made available by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) under licence from the Met Office, Newcastle University, University of East Anglia, and Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory. These organisations accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissions in the data, nor for any loss or damage directly or indirectly caused to any person or body by reason of, or arising out of, any use of this data.

**Impartial and Independent Validation

For more detailed information on WeatherLogistics' forecast validation please see https://seasonalforecasts.earth/docs/validation/