CLIMATE SERVICES FOR MONITORING THE RECENT EVOLUTION OF CLIMATE IN MURCIA REGION

Resumen

According to the Climate Watch System from World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a "Climate Watch", based on observations of current and/or future climate anomalies, can serve as a mechanism to warn the user community that a significant climate anomaly exists or might develop. In this respect, climate observations are necessary in real and historical time in order to monitor and predict effectively climate extremes.
 
Regarding to this Climate Watch System, we have developed graphical products which show the evolution of climate in "real time". These products seem to be very useful for attention to media, as input for other climate services, for the user community, etc.
 
Graphics products show thermal and pluviometric information, and the general procedure is based on three modules: climatological data, recent past data and forecasted data. 
 
The climatological data module is based on historical daily series from 25 automated weather stations (AWS) located in Murcia Region. These 25 AWS were selected from a homogenised and filled daily database (Climatol R package) among 83 Murcia Region stations. Statistics from 1981-2010 historical series were obtained for each of the 25 AWS daily database and for a regional daily database.