Date: 2010
Author: Comissioned by HFP: Rob Wilby

Advocates of closer collaboration are to be found within both climate science and riskmanagement. However, these developments are occurring more in parallel than in concert.
Climate modellers acknowledge that limited understanding and representation of complex, multi-scale atmospheric processes is hampering weather and climate prediction over days todecades. Strategies for a more unified approach to climate system prediction include testingweather models over seasonal-to-decadal time scales and climate models over days to decades (Hurrell et al., 2009). Through this interchange of scales and development of higher
resolution models it is hoped that important building blocks of weather and climate (such as convective processes and cyclones) will be better resolved.