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Climate Risk Management or Living with Cyclones: Divergence and Integration in Transdisciplinary Climate Science
By Francisco Orozco-Meléndez; WP1 Researcher; PhD Candidate at the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities – University of Bergen Transdisciplinary frameworks for knowledge co-production—on which ACACIA is inspired—bring together people from different social arenas to make… Continue reading
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Registration open: SAFE4ALL Learning Program’s next session
The SAFE4ALL Learning Program is hosting its next, free session titled ‘Understanding Climate Risk and Impacts’. Join them for their third session of the SAFE4ALL Learning Program, where they’ll dive into the fundamentals of climate risk. This session will cover… Continue reading
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ACACIA Newsletter April 2025
The ACACIA project has released its first newsletter for April 2025, sharing highlights from recent activities and progress across work packages. Discover the latest updates, stories from the field, and upcoming plans — follow the document link here to read… Continue reading
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Whose risk? Whose trigger? Coordinating forecast-based action in Madagascar
By Jesse Schrage, WP1 Researcher Fragmented present, forecasting futures In April 2025, Francisco Orozco-Meléndez (aka “Paco”) and I spent 10 days in Madagascar’s capital city, Antananarivo with the mission to better understand how anticipatory action (AA) is coordinated in the… Continue reading
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ACACIA at the ECMWF annual seminar
During the ECMWF annual seminar in Bonn in April, both Erik Kolstad and Linda Hirons from ACACIA gave invited presentations. They also presented a poster by Joshua Talib. This material is available online; click here for Erik’s slides, here for… Continue reading
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ECMWF accelerates transition to fully open data – a game-changer for ACACIA partners
By Erik Kolstad and Joshua Talib In a surprising and highly appreciated move, ECMWF has announced it will complete its transition to fully open data by 1 October 2025, a full year ahead of schedule. This means that the entire ECMWF Real-time… Continue reading
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Calling weather by its right name
ACACIA researchers are coming to see that the way we scientifically name weather systems has consequences. Names affect how societies mobilise, and how prepared they are. Continue reading
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Acacia at SARCOF
The Acacia project is all about making climate information easier to access, understand, and use—while also improving its accuracy. One of our main focus areas is Madagascar, where we kicked things off with a field mission in November. Right now,… Continue reading
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Tropical storm Dikeledi
This post will updated as new forecasts came in (follow the latest forecasts from the ECMWF here). Latest update: 10 January, 09:30 UTC The tropical storm Dikeledi (picture from Zoom Earth on 9 January) is moving fast towards the northern… Continue reading
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ACACIA kickoff meeting in Bergen, Norway
by Thomas Hovmøller Ris (NORCE) and Erik Kolstad A crocodile, an elephant, and a giraffe. You think Africa. So did many of the members of the ACACIA project when they – as an icebreaker – created animals out of pieces… Continue reading
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