Climate services for irrigation management

Abstract

Ponencia presentada en: 10º Simpósio de Meteorologia e Geofísica da APMG, celebrado del 20 al 22 de marzo de 2017 en Lisboa, PortugalAEMET is contributing with the provision of climate services related with seasonal forecasts to the MOSES (Managing crOp water Saving with Enterprise Services) EU H2020 project. The main objective of MOSES project is to put in place and demonstrate at the real scale of application an information platform devoted to planning of irrigation water resources, to support water procurement and management agencies (e.g. reclamation consortia, irrigation districts, etc.). Its main goals are saving water, improving services to farmers and reducing monetary and energy costs. MOSES is a multi-disciplinary project involving 16 partners and the AEMET main contribution consists of producing weather and climate forecasts up to seasonal timescale for two demonstration areas over Spain and another one over Morocco selected for their agricultural value

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