1. © Crown copyright Met Office Visualising Climate Impacts The importance of Google Maps and Earth in visualising climate impacts Diogo de Gusmão, Senior Climate Scientist, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter HQ, 17 September 2009 diogo.de.gusmao@metoffice.gov.uk

2. © Crown copyright Met Office Contents This presentation covers the following areas What’s out there (the past) What we are doing (the present) What we should be doing (the future?) The importance of ‘distributed collaboration’ Customer requirements

3. © Crown copyright Met Office What’s out there - the past SEA LEVEL RISE

4. © Crown copyright Met Office What’s out there - the past SEA LEVEL RISE

5. © Crown copyright Met Office What’s out there - the past TEMPERATURE

6. © Crown copyright Met Office What we are doing - the present SEA LEVEL RISE

7. © Crown copyright Met Office What we are doing - the present SEA LEVEL RISE

8. © Crown copyright Met Office What we are doing - the present SEA LEVEL RISE

9. © Crown copyright Met Office What we are doing - the present SEA LEVEL RISE

10. © Crown copyright Met Office What we are doing - the present BE CREATIVE

11. © Crown copyright Met Office What we should be doing - future? It’s all about ‘me’ What is going to happen in my back yard? How will it impact on me? And when do I need to worry? Google gives us a common platform – a bridge between science and the public We need to be the service providers: Taylor the outputs to individual needs – we can Do it by being flexible – often a challenge in the face of uncertainty

12. © Crown copyright Met Office Distributed collaboration It doesn’t have to be all about us Capitalise on the vast amounts of information already available out there, e.g. critical coastal infrastructure, flood defences, population density, etc. Focus on the public service elements when thinking about ourselves as one of the collaborators Make our climate impacts outputs both freely available to the public and commercially available to customers, with different degrees of information attached to each service Above all – walk the bridge

13. © Crown copyright Met Office Questions and answers