Connecting Data Providers and Stakeholders

Building Bridges

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Concerns for Climate Science Enterprise

• Transferability

• Scalability

• Changed decisions and decision processes

• Public support for climate research

Enabling system-wide change

Sustainability

National PerspectivesNational Perspectives

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Weather Forecasts

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Drought and Conjunctive Management

Climate Outlooks

Reservoir Operation, Well-Field, Watershed Resources, and Ecosystem

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Forecasts: months to over one year

Instrumental record: decades to over one century

Paleoclimatological indicators: centuries to millenia

Climate change: decades to century

Timescales of Climate Information

Concerns for Climate Science Enterprise

• Transferability

• Scalability

• Changed decisions and decision processes

• Public support for climate research

Enabling system-wide change

Sustainability

National PerspectivesNational Perspectives

Integrative: researchers/stakeholders, interdisciplinary, end-to-end

Participatory, Iterative: responsive to stake- holder concerns

On-going Process: mutual capacity building & sustainable legacy products

Products: link variability, impacts, response options

Equitable: outcomes benefit participants & equitably so

Lessons Learned: Decision Support Tools

StakeholdersInformation

needs, understanding,

accessSocial ScienceVulnerability,

networks

Physical Science

Variability and change Computer

ScienceWeb

programming

• Transferable, scalable tools are possible.

• Focus on knowledge development, not just data & information.

Interactive webtools require major commitment and resources.

Prototypes insufficient!Stakeholders need reliable tools, which require solid software foundation, organized development, sustainability for maintenance and expansion.

Some efforts focus on the resource-intensive cultivation of relationships with stakeholders, developing deep understanding of decision contexts and needs for climate and ancillary products, as well as effective means for supporting access to and use of information.

Evolution of Integrated Teams

StakeholdersInformation

needs, understanding,

accessSocial ScienceVulnerability,

networks

Physical Science

Variability and change

Stakeholder-driven projects are often limited in their ability to fully implement sophisticated engineered software projects required for successful transition to sustainable operations.

Evolution of Integrated Teams

StakeholdersInformation

needs, understanding,

access

Physical Science

Variability and change Computer

ScienceWeb

programming

Some efforts focus on the resource-intensive development of technology for managing information, including data storage, discovery, access, analysis, and visualization.

Often limited in their ability to determine specific, yet scalable, user needs sufficient for developing design requirements.

Necessarily focused on speculative information products that have limited interest for decision makers (e.g., from prospective satellite-based instruments, experimental monitoring programs).

Evolution of Integrated Teams

StakeholdersInformation

needs, understanding,

accessSocial ScienceVulnerability,

networks

Physical Science

Variability and change Computer

ScienceWeb

programming

Typically, neither type of effort can afford to be all-encompassing.The respective communities have different priorities, processes, and pathways for decision support tool development activities.

The premise of this session is that development of sustainable user-centric decision support tools would benefit from partnerships across these two types of efforts. Goal: identify opportunities for closer collaboration across communities.