TASK ONE: Form a group

• If you are in rows 1, 3, or 5 – please turn around and face the row behind you• Form groups of 4 to 5 people

each

TASK TWO: Introduce yourself

Each person please share:• What is your name?• Where were you born?• Where do you work now?• Share one personal experience you

have had with extreme weather

TASK THREE: Orange Cards

Why is it important to have high-resolution climate information to you, in your work?• Discuss as a group, and agree on top 3

answers• Write answers on 3 orange cards, one

idea per card• Please number the cards. It will make

Joe happy. Because he has to sort them.

TASK THREE: Why are we doing this?

Why is it important to have high-resolution climate information to you, in your work?• Water supply assessment• Connecting spatial scale of physical processes,

orography and impacts to climate information• Helps us improve scientific understanding of model

credibility and better resolve physical processes• How important IS this information anyways? Are

we all wasting our time?• Ecological assessment

TASK FOUR: Green Cards

What do you want to get out of this workshop and/or process?• Each person individually write

thoughts on 1 green card• After writing, discuss with group• Merge common ideas to come up

with top 2-3 outcomes

TASK FOUR: How can we do it better?• A solid understnding of what’s important to document about downscaling• Building a collborative network of producers and users of DS data• What are the applications people want to use this DS data for?• How do we build on this foundation (programmatic)?• What’s a balance between downscaling vs. coupled model (global model)

simulations?• Community tool for model evaluation & linking with impact assessment

models• What are the end users looking for?? What should modellers provide? Not

just data: translation also. And, what could help their colleagues?• Evaluation of methods• Near-term vs long-term needs: prioritization• Collaborative software development in transparent environment• How can we improve evaluation framework and standards• How useful is what we’re doing to DWR or other federal/state agencies

trying to provide data to users?

LUNCH!!!!!!Thank you