Climate Change Center (CCC)

(2022 – ongoing)

 

The Climate Change Center serves as the Kingdom’s national hub for climate science, integrating monitoring, forecasting, and research to strengthen resilience across water, energy, agriculture, and infrastructure sectors.

 

 

 

Context

Arabia faces intensifying climate extremes and variability, threatening water security, agriculture, energy systems, and infrastructure

Build a national hub for climate science, with operational monitoring and prediction systems that deliver actionable insights for decision-makers

Established drought monitoring and S2S forecasting systems, together with regional climate projections, now support reliable climate information, strengthen national partnerships, and expand the Kingdom’s capacity for resilience
Long-term data gaps, need for very high-resolution models to capture regional drivers, massive requirements for data storage and processing, and difficulty of translating advanced science and big data into sustainable, decision-ready services