Interactive Access to Climate Change Information

Communicating scientific research on climate change to decision-makers, stakeholders and the general public in an easily comprehensible manner is a challenging task. Against this background, interactive applications that facilitate intuitive access to relevant knowledge can play a crucial role. Nevertheless, the design of such applications is hampered by the heterogeneity of the field of climate change and climate impact research and the gap between climate experts, IT experts and end users. Facing these obstacles, this paper discusses three applications supporting access to different facets of climate change research.