2007 climate workshop nws eastern region and southern region
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2007 Climate Workshop NWS Eastern Region and Southern Region. Chet Ropelewski Climate Assessment and Services Division. NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) Understanding climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond. Outline. CPO Climate Mission - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
2007 Climate WorkshopNWS Eastern Region
and Southern Region
Chet Ropelewski Climate Assessment and Services Division
NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)Understanding climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability
to plan and respond
• CPO Climate Mission• Programs• Highlights• Approaches (eg RISA,
SARP, TRACS, NIDIS,IRI)
Outline
NOAA Goals • Protect, restore, and manage the use of
coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management
• Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond
• Serve society’s needs for weather and water information
• Support the nation’s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation
• Provide critical support for NOAA’s mission
NOAA’s Climate Mission
Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond
OUTCOMES
• A predictive understanding of the global climate system on time scales of weeks to decades with quantified uncertainties sufficient for making informed and reasoned decisions
• Climate-sensitive sectors and the climate-literate public effectively incorporating NOAA’s climate products into their plans and decisions
How the NOAA Climate Programdoes business
• Program Management and Competitive Grants– Climate Program Office (CPO)
• Laboratories and Centers– Office of Ocean and Atmosphere Research
• Research Laboratories – Boulder, Seattle, Miami, Princeton – National Weather Service
• Climate Prediction Center, Environmental Modeling Center, CSD,Regional/Local Offices
– National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Services:• Data Centers, Satellite data analysis
• Cooperative Institutes– A dozen hosted at universities across the country
• Facilities– Ships, Aircraft, Satellites, Supercomputers
Climate-sensitive sectors and the climate-literate public effectively incorporating NOAA’s climate products into their Plans and decisions
A Predictive understanding of the global climate system on time scales of weeks to decades with quantified uncertainties sufficient for making informed and reasoned decisions
Climate Predictions and Projections
Improve climate predictive capability from weeks to decades, with an increased range of applicability for management and policydecisions.
Climate and Ecosystems
Understand and predict the consequences of climate variability and change on marineecosystems.
Increase availability of climate products and services to enhance public and
private sector decision making Regional Decision Support
Program Performance objective
Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond
NOAA Climate Program Strategy
Describe and understand the state of the climate system through integrated observation, analysis, and data stewardship.Observations and Analysis
Reduce uncertainty in climate projections through timely information on the forcingand feedbacks contributing to change in the Earth’s climate.Climate Forcing
NOAA Climate Program Components
NOAA Climate Goal Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond
Climate Forcing
Observations &Analysis
Regional Decision Support
Predictions &Projections
PR
OG
RA
MS
Climate & Ecosystems
RDS
Research CPO - Climate Assessments and Services Division (CASD)andOperations NWS: Climate Services Division (CSD), WFO Climate focal points
Regional
Decision
Support
•Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA)•Caitlin Simpson, Hannah Campbell
•Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP)•Nancy Beller-Simms (Water, Urban), Lisa Vaughan (Coasts)
•Transition of Research Applications to Climate Services (TRACS)•Josh Foster (ICLEI, NIDIS, NWS)
CASD
NOAA Research: Office of Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research (OAR)
Ko Barrett, CASD Division Chief
•International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)•Chet Ropelewski (IRI, NWS)•http://iri.columbia.edu
Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA):www.climate.noaa.gov/cpo_pa/risa
•NOAA supports university-based teams across the U.S. to analyze how climate impacts key sectors within a region and how climate information could help with resource management and planning within that region.
•RISAs create strong university partnerships with federal, state, and local stakeholders within a region.
•Example topics covered include: Agriculture, Wildland Fire, Water Resources, Drought Planning, Fisheries, Public Health.
•NOAA supports university-based teams across the U.S. to analyze how climate impacts key sectors within a region and how climate information could help with resource management and planning within that region.
•RISAs create strong university partnerships with federal, state, and local stakeholders within a region.
•Example topics covered include: Agriculture, Wildland Fire, Water Resources, Drought Planning, Fisheries, Public Health.
MISSION:To use a science-based approach to enhance society's ability to understand, anticipate and manage climate risk in order to improve human welfare.
http://iri.columbia.edu
NOAA Sectoral Applications NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP)Research Program (SARP)
Among FY ‘07 SARP activities expected:
• Partnerships with resource management entities (NOAA and non-NOAA)
•Stakeholder workshops
•Methodology and tool development
•Training programs
•Competitive grants
Sectors to be addressed in FY
‘07 include:
Coastal Resources
Water Resources
Urban
Health
www.climate.noaa.gov/cpo_pa/sarp/
Transition of Research Applications to Climate Services TRACS
The TRACS program goal is to facilitate the development of new or enhanced regional products, especially at the grass roots level, and transition climate information tools into operational products.
National Integrated Drought Information System
NIDIS
Slide 1Slide 1
Tim
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cale
Tim
e S
cale
Warnings & Alert Warnings & Alert CoordinationCoordination
WatchesWatches
ForecastsForecasts
Threats Assessments
GuidanceGuidance
OutlookOutlook
Product Source
NOAA Service Requirement across scales
DiscoverDiscover
Climate
Weather
Proof ofProof ofConceptConcept
Experimental Experimental OperationalOperationalDevelopmentDevelopment
Research Operations
Suite of cooperatively definedUser and Stakeholder
Information Needs
Knowledge
Slide 11Slide 11
How can the demands for climate products and information experienced by the NWS Climate Focal Points influence the CPO Research Agenda?
I don’t know.
Do you have inventories of climate products and services?
Do you have a FAQ list for climate questions?
Do you have a set of questions that you find difficult orImpossible to answer?
Send to [email protected] line: NWS-CF issues
…but we can start a process.