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

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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

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Tim

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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 Chet.Ropelewski@noaa.govSubject line: NWS-CF issues

…but we can start a process.