Copernicus Climate Change Service

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The Copernicus Climate Change Service^[1] (abbreviated as C3S) is one of the six thematic services provided by the European Union's Copernicus Programme. The Copernicus Programme is managed by the European Commission and the C3S is implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

Key Information

Abbreviation	C3S
Formation	2014
Founder	European Commission
Type	Climate monitoring service
Purpose	Provide climate information for climate change adaptation and mitigation
Fields	Climate science
Website	https://climate.copernicus.eu
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The objective of the Copernicus Climate Change Service is to build an EU knowledge base in support of mitigation and adaptation policies for Climate Change and Global Warming. The goal of the operational Climate Change service is to provide reliable information about the current and past state of the climate, the forecasts on a seasonal time scale, and the more likely projections in the coming decades for various scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions and other Climate Change contributors.

• Annex to the commission Implementing Decision on the adoption of the Work programme 2018 and on the financing of the Copernicus Programme (PDF). European Commission (Report). Annex 1. Brussels. October 1, 2018. p. 172. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
• "Climate service develops user-friendly data store" (PDF), ECMWF, Newsletter, no. 151, Spring 2017, retrieved June 13, 2019Reference not found in this document
• 2015 Copernicus Work Programme adopted by Commission Implementing Decision C(2015) 767 final of 17.02.2015 [1]

• Official website