NWS CSPM Annual Meeting February 10, 2010
Silver Spring, MD
Eileen Shea
Climate Service Team
NCDC, Climate Services Division
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Climate Service Core Capabilities Address Societal Challenges
Partners
Partners from across the broader climate community both contribute to and benefit from the core capabilities
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Other parts of NOAA, Federal, state, tribal
and local agencies, cooperative institutes and other academic partners, the private sector, NGOs and the international community
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SOME SHARED LESSONS
Problem-focused approach addressing time and space scales relevant to decision-making:
• Understand place, context, history and decision making processes
• Address today’s problems and plan for the future:
o Multiple timescales
o Extreme events as well as trends
Stable, long-term commitment needed
• Early & continuous partnership with users essential
• Address both process and products
Collaborative, participatory process involving scientists and decision-makers
• Shared learning & joint problem-solving
• Continuous evaluation and adjustment
o Both science and policies 4
SOME SHARED LESSONS
Build on existing systems, institutions, programs, relationships & networks
• Expand partnership between science, assessment and services
• Engage with trusted information brokers
• Capitalize on unique assets, credibility and expertise of partner organizations
• Governments, private sector, universities, NGOs, educators, communities, …
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N A T I O N A L O C E A N I C A N D A T M O S P H E R I C A D M I N I S T R A T I O N
NOAA has created 6 Regional Climate Service Director positions
Announcements are posted on USAJOBs (February 9th, 2010)
The primary functions include:
Responsibility for providing leadership in the development of an integrated NOAA program of climate services on a regional
scale that responds to the needs of stakeholders and draws upon agency-wide assets and capabilities.
Management of the development and execution of a Regional Climate Services Action Plan that combines the unique assets and special capabilities of NOAA programs working with
regional partners in other Federal agencies, state, local and tribal governments, universities, the private sector and NGOs.
Regional Climate Service Directors
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Regional Climate Service Directors
7 Doug Kluck
Kansas City, Missouri
DeWayne Cecil Salt Lake City, Utah
Ellen Mecray
Bohemia, New York
David Brown Fort Worth, Texas John Marra
Honolulu, Hawaii
James Partain Anchorage, Alaska
Regional Climate Service Partnership Key Objectives
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Develop, deliver and communicate problem-focused products,
information services and decision support tools
– Connect users to existing climate products and services while
continuing to develop new,
authoritative, reliable services
– Support decision-making by providing place- based information and assessments that
advance understanding of regional and sectoral climate impacts and risks in coordination with USGCRP and other national and regional
programs
– Promote scientifically-based adaptation and mitigation support by building and integrating NOAA’s climate science and service capabilities
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Regional Climate Service Partnership
Key Objectives
– Build a robust, service-centric program that ensures that users are actively engaged in service development through sustained
engagement, dialogue and collaboration with users
– Improve the integration of climate science and services across the nation’s climate service
enterprise by promoting partnerships that leverage the assets of all levels of
government, academia, NGOs and the private sector
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Regional Climate Service Partnership:
Key Objectives
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Regional Climate Services Partnership:
A Conceptual Pearl
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Regional Services
Requirements to Meet Objectives
•Engagement of core partners and customers in
program evolution
•Establishment of multi-partner
Regional Climate Service
Partnership
Education, Outreach, and User Information Needs
Operational Climate
Observations, Products and Services
Core Capabilities
PaCIS Implementation Architecture
Fresh
Water Resources and Drought
Community Resilience to SLR, Coastal Inundation, and Extreme Weather
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Focus Areas
…Transportation Agriculture Energy Health ...
…temperature precipitation wind waves water levels SST salinity pH…
scenarios
outlooks
• Outreach
• Education
• Training and Capacity Building
• Observing Systems and Data Stewardship
• Data Services
• Climate Variability and Change
• Climate Impacts and Adaptation
Research and Assessment
• Climate Variability and Change
• Climate Impacts and Adaptation
• Policies and Legislation
• Assessment and Evaluation
PaCIS Network Architecture
Steering Committee
Executive Council
Core Capability Area Working Groups
Fresh
Water Resources and Drought
Community Resilience to SLR, Coastal Inundation,
and Extreme Weather
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Focus Area Coordination Teams User Advisory Group
Targeted Dialogs and Workshops at the
State, Territory, and Community Level
Targeted Dialogs and Workshops at the
State, Territory, and Community Level
Targeted Dialogs and Workshops at the
State, Territory, and Community Level
Other Regional Coordinating Bodies
Education, Outreach, Training Observations and Products
Research and Assessment
N A T I O N A L O C E A N I C A N D A T M O S P H E R I C A D M I N I S T R A T I O N
• Climate Prediction Center products and services are central to overall Climate Service success
• Shared responsibility for “seamless suite” of weather and climate products
• Critical partners in regional climate services
– CSD, NWS Regions and WSFOs – River Forecast Offices
– Co-location of Regional Climate Service Directors – NWS as trusted information brokers
NWS and NCS
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Effectively Anticipating and Responding to a Changing Climate Requires…
A continuously evolving understanding of the integrated “climate-society system” to address today’s challenges and plan for the future
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An adaptive management approach that provides for regular evaluation and adjustment of decisions – and Climate Service priorities -- as new scientific insights emerge and socio-economic and
environmental conditions change
People, Places, Possibilities, Partnerships:
Understanding Risks & Enhancing Resilience
NOAA CLIMATE SERVICE: Working with the BASC and the NCR
