Although weather forecasts at the subseasonal to seasonal time scale can be useful for agricultural activities, their adoption faces challenges like uncertainty and communication barriers. We used a serious game approach to facilitate dialogue between forecast developers and users in Norway. During the game sessions, we collected insights and general recommendations to develop the forecast products, proving the game methodology effective in supporting the co-production of climate services.

The CATER project promotes transdisciplinary and transcultural collaboration on climate adaptation through annual schools. The schools engage participants from diverse backgrounds in co-designing games addressing real-world challenges. Results show game design fosters mutual learning and shifts perspectives toward collaboration. Despite challenges like power dynamics and language barriers, the approach shows promise to enhance and assess transdisciplinary collaboration for climate adaptation.

The question of how to best evaluate and communicate the value of weather warnings was addressed by a survey. This included questions with respect to the relevance of various aspects of a warning, the potential benefit of providing information on warning quality, the type of useful information and suitable ways of providing such information. Apart from the core information of warnings (time, place and severity) impact information and behavioural advice are seen to add value to a warning.