About Us  

Climate Logic was established by Sergei Rodionov in 2007. Dr. Rodionov has more than 30 years of experience in climate research and forecasting (see his curriculum vitae). His career started in 1974 at the Russian Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), where he was involved in long-term environmental forecasting for fisheries. Working at the State Oceanographic Institute (Moscow, Russia), he demonstrated the importance of using global-wide information in improving the accuracy of water level forecasts for the Caspian Sea. In the 1990s, he and Dr. J. Martin from the University of Colorado at Boulder developed the first prototype of a climatic expert system called CESNA (Rodionov and Martin, 1996), which was used for experimental climate forecasting in the North Atlantic-European region (Rodionov and Martin, 1999). Recently, Dr. Rodionov developed a new knowledge management system – ECliPS. Although ECliPS uses some ideas from CESNA, it is a completely new software tool written from scratch.

At Climate Logic, ECliPS is used as the primary forecasting tool. Our main assets, however, are our data and knowledge bases. Currently, the knowledge base consists of more than 500 rules, and this number is rapidly increasing as we acquire new rules and retest the old ones used in CESNA. About two thirds of those rules have been derived from the scientific literature. In this sense, they reflect the state of knowledge about the climate system, and they evolve as this knowledge progresses. In addition, we conduct our own research, which translates into about other one third of the rules. If you are interested in obtaining access to our data and knowledge bases, please send your request to .