Climate Change Assessments and Impacts
Climate Change Assessments and Impacts
Climate Change Assessments and Impacts
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<strong>Climate</strong> Services:<br />
“Official” climate products & processes allow planners to make major,<br />
climate-informed, infrastructure decisions…. <strong>and</strong> stay out of court.<br />
• Decision makers are being approached by many consultants,<br />
but can’t tell good from bad<br />
• How to define ‘official’ or ‘certified’ processes?<br />
• What metrics would regions/sectors have for success?<br />
• What baselines are needed <strong>and</strong> who creates them<br />
• Effective quantification & communication of uncertainty <strong>and</strong> applicability?<br />
• Issued ≠ perfect (e.g. NWS weather forecasts)<br />
• WH OSTP/CEQ: not 1 big center, nor many new small centers,<br />
-> interface between existing data centers <strong>and</strong> local knowledge expertise<br />
• Connecting existing public & private sector data <strong>and</strong> decision networks?<br />
• Roles <strong>and</strong> Responsibilities –<br />
NOAA operations <strong>and</strong> research, NCAR research, private industry –<br />
• Structure still under development, yet decisions are being made NOW
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