Climate Frontiers

In this Episode we explore the concept of impact models, which are models that use climate information as an input and then make specific projections, or produce narratives about impacts within an end user's sector. This user then incorporates this s... more

In this Episode we explore the concept of the climate services value chain - the idea that climate information is produced by scientists and then fed down a chain of intermediaries who tailor or transform it, until it reaches its intended “end” user.... more

In this episode, we have a frank conversation about why people use, or don’t use climate information.  Seasonal forecasts are presented as a particularly interesting example, because, despite the potential value of seasonal forecasts for informing de... more

A decade of sustained African climate science mentorship

In this Episode we talk about the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) and in particular Cordex-Africa and the role it has played in developing the capacity of African scienti... more

In this episode we talk about why climate change is such a complex problem and what CSAG and others are doing to make sense of the complexity to help make climate information clearer, more accessible, and usable or actionable by those confronting cli... more

In this episode we talk to three people who have been involved in a recent project exploring some of the challenges at the intersection of climate services and ethics.  The project was a partnership between CSAG, the South African Weather Service (SA... more

Welcome to Climate Frontiers, a podcast series exploring the latest thinking, approaches, and debates in climate science, hosted by the Climate System Analysis Group, or CSAG, at the University of Cape Town. 

Our aim is to present an accessible per... more