The Climate Science for Service Partnership China is a collaborative climate science initiative between research institutes in the UK and China. Launched in 2014, the Climate Science for Service Partnership China (CSSP China) is a project stimulating scientific collaboration between research institutes in the UK and China. It focuses on producing world-leading scientific research that is fundamental to the development of climate services that support climate-resilient economic development and social welfare around the world. The project is working to enhance collaborative research by supporting the UK climate science community in their work with Chinese research institutes. The CSSP China project is part of our Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) programme, supported by the UK Government’s Newton Fund. Through CSSP China, we are developing strong scientific partnerships between the Met Office, the China Meteorological Administration, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other key institutes in China and the UK.

UK partners include: ARUP, Institute of Environmental Analytics, Imperial College London, National Centre for Atmospheric Science Reading, Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Birmingham, University of East Anglia , University of Edinburgh, University of Exeter, University of Leeds, University of Leicester, University of Oxford, University of Reading.

The project has published over 400 peer reviewed studies with many generated jointly by UK and Chinese scientists. In May 2021, a project overview paper was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The paper presents highlights from the first six years of the project and was led by project science leads at the Met Office in collaboration with the China Meteorological Administration and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics.

Find out more: Scaife et al., 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Additionally, two special issues of the project have been published so far:

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences journal, 2018
The Journal of Meteorological Research, 2020

You can find a full list of CSSP China research publications on the VIEWpoint CSSP China website.