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Outline:• Motivation • Mission and Approach• Description of Current Projects
• Representative of Approach• Summary and Questions
A US National Climate Predictions and Projections (NCPP) Platform
Prepared by the NCPP CORE TEAMMarch 5, 2012
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Typical Practitioner
"Climate scientists have already established that the world needs to be prepared for sea level rise, more extreme environmental conditions, and more rapid environmental change. Decision makers are already factoring this into their processes. Given this:
Where can climate science add demonstrable additional value?"
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What’s Missing?“Better” climate information is rarely sufficient; this is not simply
a problem of handing off data and information. Repeated studies have shown that usable climate information follows from the generation or production of problem solving strategies by teams containing both scientists and non-scientist practitioners. (e.g. Lemos and Morehouse, 2005)
This co-generation or co-production of solution strategies is at the foundation of the National Climate Predictions and Projections Platform. We work at the interfaces between climate science and decision making.
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NCPP Mission and Strategy
Mission: Supports state-of-the-art approaches to develop and deliver comprehensive regional climate information and facilitate its use in decision making and adaptation planning. Strategy: A participatory community enterprise where climate information users, infrastructure developers, and scientists come together in a collaborative problem solving environment.
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NCPP is an emerging Participatory Community
• Focused on the synthesis of existing climate assets spread across federal agencies, regional and local governments, universities, professional societies, nonprofits, and commercial activities
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NCPP Problem ApproachWork through pilot projects and use cases that support
– Provision of guidance and advisory narratives – Provision of quality-assessed, digital climate data– Development of IT infrastructure
Pilot projects support extension to growing capacity– Study “How is the Problem Addressed?”– Develop templates that facilitate similar problems– Evaluation of effectiveness of provided information and services
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NCPP Current Pilot Projects
PROJECTS
FUNCTIONS
RESOURCES
PilotsMissouri Basin
La Nina
Downscaling-Evaluation
-2013 Workshop
Use CasesClimate Indices
(technical framework)
Translational Information & Guidance / Infrastructure / Data Access (Templates and Tools to Facilitate Community Problem Solving)
Existing Resources / Open Source Tools / Community Activities
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NCPP and open communities
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Downscaling - 2013
• NCPP Goals– Evaluation Standards– Guidance Documents – Translation for users and development of metadata /
common language• Climate Science Applications Team
– K. Dixon (GFDL), K. Hayhoe (Texas Tech), R. Horton (Columbia Univ.), K. Kunkel (NCDC; NC State), X.-Z. Liang (Maryland), L. Mearns (NCAR), J. Winkler (MSU), A. Wood (NWS/CBRFC)
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Missouri River Basin / La Nina 2012 Extremes (NCPP Goals)
• Real-world example of regional problem– Evaluation of provided information– Engagement of network of users for use-driven problems– Translation of global to regional / seasonal to long-term
• Template for problem solving (link to design doc )• Potential capacity building regional problems
– Technique – how to provide usable information– Footprint of usable resources / Gap identification– Engagement of users in capacity building– Development of COG as aggregation center for class of
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Climate Indices Pilot &North Central – Climate Science Center
(NC - CSCs)
• Climate Indices for Impacts Assessment: technical project to spur development of framework for translational information and shared services: NCPP, USGS Derivatives Portal, and data collections at Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)
• NC- CSC: deliberate, ongoing interaction to prototype how NCPP will work with CSCs (Department of Interior) to develop and deliver needed climate information products.
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Examples of Potential Resource Re-use
• OpenClimateGIS: geospatial web service that provides access to climate model forecasts in geospatial formats
• GLISAClimate.org: Use-driven Problem Solving Environment
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Summary
NCPP is focused on the synthesis of existing capabilities to build a sustained capability. Relies on last decade’s development of pieces of a potential integrated capacity: Investments in understanding user needs and use of climate information Investments in information technology infrastructureEmergence of successful approaches to govern distributed communities
StatusSet of pilot projects where we participate in the project with the goal on
understanding “how” the problem is approached – then structuring that information into new capacity and extending to new problems and communities
Developing a model of project governance to formalize multi-agency, multi-sponsored ownership of NCPP
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NCPP CORE TEAM
Program/Platform manager – Don AndersonChief Scientist: Richard Rood
Translational Information & Guidance
Integration and Design:
Joseph Barsugli Caspar Ammann
Infrastructure and Data Cecelia DeLuca
Application Pilots Community Interfaces Wayne Higgins
Administration Galia Guentchev, Allyn Treshansky, Richard Rood, Cecelia DeLuca
Galia Guentchev
Core Team
Luca CinquiniAllyn Treshansky
Doug KluckAndrea Ray
Executive Board (in progress)