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Climate Frontiers

by Climate System Analysis Group

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  • Ep 6 What's the Impact of Impact Models?

    February 10, 2022 · 32 min

    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…

  • Ep 5 Rattling the value chain

    November 11, 2021 · 38 min

    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…

  • Ep 4 Making Sense of Seasonal Forecasts and Decision Making

    August 12, 2021 · 33 min

    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…

  • Ep 3 CORDEX-Africa

    July 14, 2021 · 51 min

    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…

  • Ep 2 The Complex Challenge

    June 10, 2021 · 41 min

    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…

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  • Ep 1 The Ethics of Climate Services

    April 16, 2021 · 52 min

    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…

  • Welcome to Climate Frontiers (Introduction)

    April 13, 2021 · 1 min

    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…

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About the show

Climate Frontiers is 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. This podcast presents an accessible perspective on topics often hidden behind academic language. Through conversations with researchers at CSAG, and occasionally with partners across Africa and internationally, we discuss a range of topics from within physical climate science, through to social science and philosophy Subscribe to the CSAG newsletter at www.csag.uct.ac.za/csag-newsletter/