Initial GEO Mountains Survey on Essential Mountain Climate Variables: The next steps

1. a) Are you broadly supporting of the EMCV concept?

Yes No

1. b) If not, why not?

2. a) Do you favour a more parsimonious or comprehensive set of EMCVs, bearing in mind the respective benefits and limitations?

Parsimonious Comprehensive

2. b) What do you consider to be the optimal “target number” of EMCVs?

(Numeric, 1-200)

3. Are there any variables not considered by Thornton et al. (2021) that you consider to be essential for monitoring, understanding, and better predicting climate-driven change processes and impacts in mountains?

List 5 maximum

4. Please rank the 5 variables (either specified by Thornton et al. (2021) or listed in #3) that you consider most essential for these purposes, taking a general / interdisciplinary mindset as far as possible

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

5. Would you be willing to help contribute to the specification of minimum observational requirements (spatial resolution, frequency, accuracy / bias, spatial density etc., as applicable) that EMCV measurements / observations / model outputs within your expertise should meet in order to be useful for general applications in mountainous terrain?

Yes No

6. Are you interested in contributing to the development of a similar set of essential socio-economic mountain variables?

Yes No

Thank you!