Community of Practice
Richard B. Rood
August 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
Basic
Data
Applications
Global
Regional
Local
Digital Information
Assessments
Narratives
Indices
IPCC
Model
Fact Sheets
What has happened?
Downscaled
NCA
What will happen?
Output
Summaries
GIS Formats
Local
What are the impacts?
Images
Seasonality
Guidance
Figures
Observations
Judgment
Quality Assessment
Homogeneity
Uncertainty Descriptions
Risk Assessments
NCPP in Information Chain
Data-Able
Digital Information
End User
Basic
Indices
Federal
Evaluation
Downscaled
Data
State
GIS Formats
Local
Temporal
Boundary
Guidance
Spatial
RISA
Judgment
CSC
- Strength /
Model
Images
USDA
Weakness
Output
Methods &
Projects
Figures
Datasets
CORDEX
- Obs Datasets
Assessments
- Process-based
NCA
Observations
- Uncertainty
Quality Assessment
- Quality Control Interpreters
Homogeneity
Researchers
Applications
Global
Regional
Local
Fact Sheets
Summaries
Narratives
What has happened?
What will happen?
What are the impacts?
Guidance
Judgment
Education
Going into meeting
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Evaluation framework
Structured of problem solving
Templates for problem
Templates for information
Extension of capabilities
• Infrastructure
• Observational Data
– Station data
• Interface
• Documentation
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Downscaled Reanalysis
Underlying GCMS
Appropriate Information
Projections
Seasonal
Ensembles
Community, Partnerships, Collaboration
• Infrastructure
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USGS
JPL
ES-DOC
CORDEX
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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
Integration
NCPP Software
Environment
Downscaling
Evaluation
Workshop
2013
NC CSC
Downscaling
Metadata
Interagency
Community
Executive Board
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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
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
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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