Transcript 1(Bridges)
Building Bridges Millua Viaduct, FR greatdreams.com Connecting Data Providers and Stakeholders National Perspectives Concerns for Climate Science Enterprise • Transferability Enabling system-wide change • Scalability Sustainability • Changed decisions and decision processes • Public support for climate research Issue: Many Space & Time Scales 10 6 Decadal Variability Drought and Conjunctive Management 2 10 5 Climate Outlooks General Flood Reservoir Operation, Well-Field, Watershed Resources, and Ecosystem Management 10 4 Climate Change Structural Integrity Extended/Seasonal Weather Predictions Safe Yield and Reliability Weather Forecasts 10 3 10 2 Flash Flood Temporal Scale century decade year season month week day 10 Timescales of Climate Information Paleoclimatological indicators: centuries to millenia Past Instrumental record: decades to over one century Forecasts: months to over one year Future Climate change: decades to century National Perspectives Concerns for Climate Science Enterprise • Transferability Enabling system-wide change • Scalability Sustainability • Changed decisions and decision processes • Public support for climate research Integrative: researchers/stakeholders, interdisciplinary, end-to-end Participatory, Iterative: responsive to stakeholder 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 • 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. Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Social Science Vulnerability, networks Physical Science Variability and change Computer Science Web programming Evolution of Integrated Teams Some efforts focus on the resourceintensive 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. Stakeholder-driven projects are often limited in their ability to fully implement sophisticated engineered software projects required for successful transition to sustainable operations. Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Social Science Vulnerability, networks Physical Science Variability and change Evolution of Integrated Teams Some efforts focus on the resourceintensive 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). Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Physical Science Variability and change Computer Science Web programming Evolution of Integrated Teams 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. Stakeholders Information needs, understanding, access Social Science Vulnerability, networks Physical Science Variability and change Computer Science Web programming Goal: identify opportunities for closer collaboration across communities.