Towards a Climate Service for the Tea Industry:A Collaborative Approach between the UK and China  

作　　者：Stacey NEW Shaojuan LI Tongwen ZHAO Elisabeth THOMPSON Nicola BOWN Tim MITCHELL Amy WATERSON Jennifer H WEEKS Jing YANG Rosie OAKES Tianjun ZHOU Nicola GOLDING 

机构地区：[1]UK Met Office,Exeter EX13PB,UK [2]Yunnan University of Finance and Economics,Yunnan Key Laboratory for Plateau Mountain Land Use,Kunming 650021,China [3]University of Leeds,Leeds,LS29JT,UK [4]Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China [5]Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China [6]College of Earth and Planetary Sciences,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 101408,China

出　　处：《Advances in Atmospheric Sciences》2024年第12期2289-2299,共11页大气科学进展（英文版）

基　　金：funded by the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership(CSSP)China project under the International Science Partnerships Fund(ISPF);supported by funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42475022).

摘　　要：Tea is an important global commodity,with important tea-growing regions spanning across South America,Africa,and Asia,and burgeoning smaller-scale and artisanal tea production in the UK and Europe.In each of these regions,the quality and quantity of tea production,with their economic and social consequences,are highly sensitive to variations in the climate on both short-term weather,seasonal and climate change timescales.The provision of tailored climate information in a timely and accessible manner through the development,delivery and use of climate services can help tea-farmers and other relevant stakeholders better understand the impacts of climate variability and climate change on decision-making and a range of adaptive actions.This paper presents an overview of the Tea-CUP project(Co-developing Useful Predictions),a joint initiative between UK and Chinese partners,which aims to develop and implement solutions for improving robust decision-making.Co-production principles are core,ensuring that the resultant climate services are usable and useful;users'needs are met through close engagement and joint research and decision-making.The paper also reports on the exchange of knowledge and experiences,such as between tea growers in China and the UK,which has resulted from this collaborative work,fostering global knowledge sharing,enriching understanding,and driving innovation by integrating diverse perspectives and expertise from different countries.This is an unintended but valuable side-effect of the collaborative approach taken and highlights the benefits of a highly relational and multidisciplinary approach to climate services development that will inform future work in the field.

关 键 词：climate services CO-PRODUCTION tea industry knowledge exchange 

分 类 号：S162.54[农业科学—农业气象学] F326.12[农业科学—农业基础科学] F356.1[经济管理—产业经济]