community of practice richard b. rood august 12, 2013
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Community of Practice
Richard B. RoodAugust 12, 2013
This workshop• This workshop is a beginning• This workshop is an invitation• The Core Team started by “listening” both in general and in specific
– Need for evaluation, indices, provenance, translation– Doable, advancing
• Then core team tried to build a foundation– Built from community resources– Targeting community participation– Single path through the problem
• Invitation now is to– Decide if we want to build from this foundation– Development of a community of practice
Types of Translational Information
ModelOutput
Digital InformationIndices
DownscaledGIS FormatsSeasonality
Fact SheetsSummaries
NarrativesWhat has happened?
What will happen?What are the impacts?
GuidanceJudgment
AssessmentsIPCCNCALocal
BasicData
ApplicationsGlobal
RegionalLocal
ObservationsQuality Assessment
Homogeneity
ImagesFigures
Uncertainty DescriptionsRisk Assessments
NCPP in Information Chain
ModelOutput
Digital InformationIndices
DownscaledGIS Formats
TemporalSpatial Fact Sheets
SummariesNarratives
What has happened?What will happen?
What are the impacts?
GuidanceJudgment
AssessmentsNCA
BasicData
ApplicationsGlobal
RegionalLocal
ObservationsQuality Assessment
Homogeneity
ImagesFigures
Boundary RISACSC
USDA
Data-AbleEnd User Federal
StateLocal
Projects CORDEX
GuidanceJudgment
Evaluation
- Strength / Weakness Methods & Datasets
- Obs Datasets- Process-based- Uncertainty- Quality Control Interpreters
Researchers Education
Going into meeting
• Evaluation framework• Structured of problem solving• Templates for problem • Templates for information
Extension of capabilities
• Infrastructure
• Interface
• Documentation
• Observational Data– Station data
• Downscaled Reanalysis• Underlying GCMS• Appropriate Information• Projections• Seasonal• Ensembles
Community, Partnerships, Collaboration
• Infrastructure– USGS– JPL– ES-DOC– CORDEX
• IRI• RISAS• CSCs• USDA• CLIVAR
Bunch of NCPP Material Follows
How to deal with complexity
• In the past decade community approaches have emerged as a strategy to iterate, to organize complexity, to evolve standards.
• This is different than, say –– Building portals for community science– Building tools for the community– Building collaboratories
NCPP Strategy and Projects• Workshop in 2013– a focal point and an integration of all NCPP projects– one of a sequence of workshops that focus the overall
evaluation activity and strategy of NCPP
Climate Indices
Downscaling Evaluation
NC CSC Downscaling Metadata
IntegrationWorkshop
2013NCPP Software Environment
Interagency Community
Executive Board
• Lisa Goddard (Chair)• Shawn Carter• Kim Hall• Phil Mote• Eileen Shea• Linda Mearns (Representing the Climate Science
Applications Team)• Ricky Rood (Chief Scientist, Representing Core Team)• Galia Guentchev is appointed as Executive Secretary
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Climate Science Applications Team• Focus:
– Downscaled climate information and its use• Science-based evaluation• Uncertainty • Guidelines
• Membership:– 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)
• Current Activities: – Provide scientific foundation for 2013 workshop on “Evaluation
of Downscaling Techniques”• Future:
– Evolve CSAT as an advisory and decision-making component of NCPP that oversees broad-based NCPP applications
Personal Motivations
• Access to data – student experience• Evaluation– Scientists, skeptical scientists, science managers,
end users• Knowledge Systems– Iterative co-development, co-generation
• Values– Transparent, Contextual, Traceability, Objective …
The long elevator speech
• Anchored in evaluation of digital data – climate predictions and projections– climate observation
• Emphasis on translation– Guidance– Accessibility– Narrative
• Infrastructure to support– Access to information– Evaluation– Values such as transparency
This is hard
• Problem of complexity– Existing capabilities – fragmented unmanaged– Changing all the time
• Problem of language and definition– In climate-science community– Across interface of climate-science and everything
else• Problem of iterative co-development
• Had to make some decisions
Community
• Evaluations• Indices• Local
• NCPP Figure• Translation Figure
• Partners / Collaborators– Technical– Institution
• Guidance– Process-based narratives– Guidance on data choice• Evaluation Summaries
• Community– Governance