Introduction
The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Working Group on Event Attribution (EEA WG), under the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) of Regional Information for Society (RIfS), was formed in 2024, and aims to:
· Provide best practice guidelines to ensure that event attribution information globally, particularly in an operational context, is clear, robust, traceable, and consistently interpreted
· Increase the capacity for event attribution in the Global South and underrepresented regions
As part of its activities, the EEA WG is undertaking a scan of the global research and weather/climate services communities for who is involved in sharing EEA results.
Invitation to participate, and benefits
You are invited to participate in a survey conducted with people who work on EEA. The study aim is to understand who is working on EEA and provides (or is aiming to provide) EEA services and learn from their experiences around implementation, communication, usage, data and code sharing, and capacity building. The summarized results of the survey will be available as a resource to the EEA community.
Procedures
During this study, you will be asked to complete a simple survey with nine questions, with an optional further six. It should take no more than 10 to 15 minutes to complete. The results of the study will be used in a short report on EEA services and may also be used in a research paper submitted to a scientific journal.
Risks
There are no potentially harmful risks related to your participation in this study.
Disclaimer/Withdrawal
Your participation is completely voluntary; you may refuse to participate, and you may withdraw at any time without having to state a reason and without any prejudice or penalty against you. Should you choose to withdraw, the research team commits not to use any of the information you have provided without your signed consent. Note that the research team may also withdraw you from the study at any time.
Confidentiality
All information collected in this study will be kept private, in a secure file storage managed by the Working Group on Event Attribution secretariat. You will not be identified by name or by affiliation to an institution. Confidentiality and anonymity will be maintained as pseudonyms will be used.
What agreeing to this page means
By selecting “yes” to this consent form, you agree to participate in this research study. The aim, procedures to be used, as well as the potential risks and benefits of your participation have been explained verbally to you in detail, using this form. Refusal to participate in or withdrawal from this study at any time will have no effect on you in any way. You are free to contact us, to ask questions or request further information, at any time during this research. Please feel free to reach out to us directly through the Working Group co-chairs:
Mark McCarthy, UK <mark.mccarthy@metoffice.gov.uk> and
Megan Kirchmeier-Young, Canada <Megan.Kirchmeier-Young@ec.gc.ca>