The APEC Climate Center (APCC) held the “APCC Climate Information Services Technical Workshop” at APCC on 6 – 7 October 2020 in Busan, Korea.

This workshop aimed to promote the use of APCC’s climate prediction and information services in Korea and to effectively increase the utilization capacity of climate information. 18 university (graduate) students and researchers in the field of climate information production and utilization of related domestic institutions and universities participated in the workshop.

In this workshop, APCC researchers introduced the theories behind APCC’s climate prediction and conducted practical training sessions on how to use APCC climate information services. During the training workshop, participants were able to directly communicate with the APCC researchers to answer their questions on APCC climate information services.

On the first day of the workshop, there was a presentation entitled ‘Introduction to APCC’s Climate Prediction and Information Services’. After that, the participants had a chance to learn how to use the ‘Climate Information Service Platform’ (http://cliks.apcc21.org), which allows climate information users to select and utilize a wider variety of climate data. Participants also learned about the ‘Climate Information Processing system’ (CLIPs, http://clips.apcc21.org), which enables users to extract and reprocess necessary data for each region, variable, and period set by the user.

On the second day, there was a session on the ‘Open Web Processing Service’ (OpenWPS, http://openwps.apcc21.org), a climate data interface service offering both a visualization service based on climate data and area boundary information for detailed data extraction based on geographic information.

Following the introduction to climate prediction information offered on the APCC homepage (www.apcc21.org), participants had a chance to learn how to use the ‘CLimate Information toolKit’ (CLIK, http://clik.apcc21.org), which enables its users to produce customized climate prediction information.

This new technical workshop combines sessions from previously held APCC training workshops. APCC plans to hold the APCC Climate Information Services Technical Workshop annually for users of APCC's climate information service in Korea and abroad.