Regional Climate Service Partnership: Advancing Climate Services

1. NWS CSPM Annual Meeting February 10, 2010 Silver Spring, MD Eileen Shea Climate Service Team NCDC, Climate Services Division

2. Climate Service Core Capabilities Address Societal Challenges

3. Partners • Partners from across the broader climate community both contribute to and benefit from the core capabilities • Other parts of NOAA, Federal, state, tribal and local agencies, cooperative institutes and other academic partners, the private sector, NGOs and the international community October 27, 2010

4. SOME SHARED LESSONS • Problem-focused approach addressing time and space scales relevant to decision-making: • Understand place, context, history and decision making processes • Address today’s problems and plan for the future: • Multiple timescales • Extreme events as well as trends • Stable, long-term commitment needed • Early & continuous partnership with users essential • Address both process and products • Collaborative, participatory process involving scientists and decision-makers • Shared learning & joint problem-solving • Continuous evaluation and adjustment • Both science and policies

5. SOME SHARED LESSONS • Build on existing systems, institutions, programs, relationships & networks • Expand partnership between science, assessment and services • Engage with trusted information brokers • Capitalize on unique assets, credibility and expertise of partner organizations • Governments, private sector, universities, NGOs, educators, communities, …

6. Regional Climate Service Directors • NOAA has created 6 Regional Climate Service Director positions • Announcements are posted on USAJOBs (February 9th, 2010) • The primary functions include: • Responsibility for providing leadership in the development of an integrated NOAA program of climate services on a regional scale that responds to the needs of stakeholders and draws upon agency-wide assets and capabilities.   • Management of the development and execution of a Regional Climate Services Action Plan that combines the unique assets and special capabilities of NOAA programs working with regional partners in other Federal agencies, state, local and tribal governments, universities, the private sector and NGOs.  

7. Regional Climate Service Directors Doug Kluck Kansas City, Missouri DeWayne Cecil Salt Lake City, Utah Ellen Mecray Bohemia, New York James Partain Anchorage, Alaska David Brown Fort Worth, Texas John Marra Honolulu, Hawaii

8. Regional Climate Service PartnershipKey Objectives • Develop, deliver and communicate problem-focused products, information services and decision support tools • Connect users to existing climate products and services while continuing to develop new, authoritative, reliable services

9. Regional Climate Service PartnershipKey Objectives • Support decision-making by providing place-based information and assessments that advance understanding of regional and sectoral climate impacts and risks in coordination with USGCRP and other national and regional programs • Promote scientifically-based adaptation and mitigation support by building and integrating NOAA’s climate science and service capabilities 9 NOAA CLIMATE SERVICES: Working with MIC/HIC

10. Regional Climate Service Partnership:Key Objectives • Build a robust, service-centric program that ensures that users are actively engaged in service development through sustained engagement, dialogue and collaboration with users • Improve the integration of climate science and services across the nation’s climate service enterprise by promoting partnerships that leverage the assets of all levels of government, academia, NGOs and the private sector 10 NOAA CLIMATE SERVICES: Working with MIC/HIC

11. Regional Climate Services Partnership:A Conceptual Pearl 11 NOAA CLIMATE SERVICES: Working with MIC/HIC

12. Regional ServicesRequirements to Meet Objectives Engagement of core partners and customers in program evolution Establishment of multi-partner Regional Climate Service Partnership

13. PaCIS Implementation Architecture scenarios Education, Outreach, and User Information Needs • Outreach • Education • Training and Capacity Building Operational Climate Observations, Products and Services • Observing Systems and Data Stewardship • Data Services • Climate Variability and Change • Climate Impacts and Adaptation Core Capabilities Research and Assessment • Climate Variability and Change • Climate Impacts and Adaptation • Policies and Legislation • Assessment and Evaluation …temperature precipitation wind waves water levels SST salinity pH… Focus Areas • Fresh • Water Resources and Drought Community Resilience to SLR, Coastal Inundation, and Extreme Weather Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems outlooks …Transportation Agriculture Energy Health ...

14. Targeted Dialogs and Workshops at the State, Territory, and Community Level • Targeted Dialogs and Workshops at the • State, Territory, and Community Level • Targeted Dialogs and Workshops at the • State, Territory, and Community Level Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems Community Resilience to SLR, Coastal Inundation, and Extreme Weather • Fresh • Water Resources and Drought PaCIS Network Architecture Focus Area Coordination Teams User Advisory Group Core Capability Area Working Groups Research and Assessment Observations and Products Education, Outreach, Training Steering Committee Executive Council Other Regional Coordinating Bodies

15. NWS and NCS • Climate Prediction Center products and services are central to overall Climate Service success • Shared responsibility for “seamless suite” of weather and climate products • Critical partners in regional climate services • CSD, NWS Regions and WSFOs • River Forecast Offices • Co-location of Regional Climate Service Directors • NWS as trusted information brokers

16. Effectively Anticipating and Responding to a Changing Climate Requires… A continuously evolving understanding of the integrated “climate-society system” to address today’s challenges and plan for the future and An adaptive management approach that provides for regular evaluation and adjustment of decisions – and Climate Service priorities -- as new scientific insights emerge and socio-economic and environmental conditions change People, Places, Possibilities, Partnerships: Understanding Risks & Enhancing Resilience

17. Thank You… Questions?