Community of Practice Richard B. Rood August 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 InformationTranslational Information Model Output Digital Information Indices Downscaled GIS Formats Seasonality Fact Sheets Summaries Narratives What has happened? What will happen? What are the impacts? Guidance Judgment Assessments IPCC NCA Local Basic Data Applications Global Regional Local Observations Quality Assessment Homogeneity Images Figures Uncertainty Descriptions Risk Assessments

NCPP in Information Chain Model Output Digital Information Indices Downscaled GIS Formats Temporal Spatial Fact Sheets Summaries Narratives What has happened? What will happen? What are the impacts? Guidance Judgment Assessments NCA Basic Data Applications Global Regional Local Observations Quality Assessment Homogeneity Images Figures Boundary RISA CSC USDA Data-Able End User Federal State Local Projects CORDEX Guidance Judgment 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 Integration Workshop 2013 NCPP 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

13 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