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