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In the course of 5 years over 200 Swedish students involved in the CRESCENDOschools network  visited SMHI in several occasions to discuss causes, impacts, adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Here is some of the material produced and resulting from those visits.

Serious games have a role to play in communicating and educating about climate change. CRESCENDOschools activities in this field included a climate adaptation game and a climate quiz.

All stations along the west coast had a domination of diatoms to some extent. Most common was Dactyliosolen fragilissimus. The dinoflagellates were not common and mostly represented by the genus Tripos. The coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi was found in relatively high numbers at several stations. …

Warming of the surface water (0-10m) at all sea basins continued in May. At several stations, the increase was about 5 ℃ compared with previous month. The salinity of the surface water at the outer stations in the Skagerrak were slightly above normal. In the Kattegat, which had salinity above …

Report - The oxygen situation in the Baltic Sea 2020

Annual report of the Swedish oceanographic monitoring in open seas.

In the joint research and development project FANFAR, SMHI and partners in 17 West African and three European countries have created an Early Warning System that provides a better opportunity for West African societies to act and minimize flood impacts. The system is now in use and the Nigerian …

During Spring 2018, the CRESCENDOschools network launched a contest on climate communication for high-school students. The contest challenged 16-19 year-olds to create and develop new ideas and ways to communicate climate science and raise awareness on climate change.

Ten students from the École Jeannine Manuel in Paris, partnered with Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (CNRS-IPSL) scientists, created a musical on climate change. The musical has been performed several times at the school and also at CRESCENDO’s GA September 2017.

Students from Luleå Gymnasietskolan produced a collection of “Teach your parents” infographics, based on IPCC’s special report on 1.5C findings, as they felt that their parents weren’t sufficiently aware of the threat posed by climate change.