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The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and SMHI began working together on open source code for processing satellite data ten years ago. Today, this collaboration – Pytroll – involves more than one hundred experts and developers from around fifteen different countries, and the software has grown …

The Climate Adaptation Game is now available to play for free at SMHI’s webpage. The game aims at developing better understanding of the effects of climate change, and how to meet the challenges it brings. The game can be used in education for sustainable development, or in various contexts …

A study by researchers från Rossby Centre at SMHI shows that major afforestation in Europe has the potential to reduce the number of extra-tropical cyclones by up to 80 percent. This would result in a considerable reduction of precipitation extremes in winter, while Southern and Eastern Europe …

Across Europe, there are thousands of larger and smaller water reservoirs with an important role for drinking water supply, hydropower, environment, and recreation. In a new project lead by SMHI, researchers are going to look into the impact on the water reservoirs from climate change and …

Next week, 14-18 October, almost 500 regional climate researchers, decision makers and users of regional climate information from more than 70 countries will gather for the 4th International Conference on Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (ICRC-CORDEX 2019) in Beijing, China. …

IPCC has released a special report focusing on the ocean and the cryosphere in a changing climate. Following the release, SMHI is hosting a workshop with the aim of exchanging knowledge on the topic and discussing its implications and benefits for Swedish climate planning.

Long-term visions, time, social media and training of the next generation was highlighted as the key components for the future of capacity development, when SMHI showcased some recent projects experiences at the start of World Water Week in Stockholm.

Workshop on Sea Level Rise; IPCC SROCC Science and Planning for Climate Adaptation. IPCC has released a special report focusing on the ocean and the cryosphere (SROCC). Following the release, SMHI hosted a workshop with the aim of exchanging knowledge on the topic and discussing its implications …

During the spring SMHI had been engaged from Met Éireann to hold a training course in meteorological. Now that the two-week course has been delivered, the Irish participants gave positive feedbacks of the collaboration with SMHI.

As of June 3, 2019, sea levels in SMHI's observations, forecasts and warnings will be expressed in the Swedish national height system 2000 (Rikets Höjdsystem 2000, RH 2000) instead of relative the mean sea level. RH 2000 is Sweden's national reference system for heights and depths. The transition …