Implementing Climate and Global Change Research A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (2004) / Chapter Skim
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2. Science Focus and Scope
2. Science Focus and Scope
Pages 11-20
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In terms of the CCSP, each of the three topic areas attention to research and decision support related to the (ecosystems, human dimensions, and the water cycle) has regional and international aspects of climate and associated functions embedded in several agencies, and lacks clear global changes is particularly welcome.
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All 21 of the synthesis and assessment products in the The strategic plan explicitly describes considerable strategic plan represent efforts to "integrate, evaluate, and synthesis and assessment activity. The revised plan calls for interpret" the findings of the program, and therefore appear 21 synthesis and assessment products to be produced in to fall under the first assessment component of the Global either a 0-2 year or a 2-4 year timeframe.
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BOX 2-2 Planning Climate and Global Change Research (NRC, 2003b) Recommendation The revised strategic plan should build upon the lessons learned in applied climate studies and stakeholder interaction from prior environmental and climate assessment activities.
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The committee reiterates the unduly affecting the ability to conduct research and in recommendation from its first report that the CCSP should coordination with the IPCC assessment. "build upon the lessons learned in applied climate studies and stakeholder interaction from prior environmental and climate assessment activities." This deficiency needs to be DECISION SUPPORT remedied quickly so that the program's decision support activities reflect what the scientific community now knows, The CCSP has appropriately made decision support an what it can accomplish, and what users would like to know.
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Revisions to the CCSP Strategic Plan The revised plan includes a much improved treatment of decision support in Chapter 11 (Decision Support Resources Development) , which lays out a framework for the types of decision support activities to be undertaken by the program and how these will help identify decision information needs to guide the evolution of the CCSP science agenda.
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The plan calls for significant addition, regional products and communication systems are advances in the capability of climate models to simulate important aspects of climate and associated global change future climate conditions and their associated regional that are not yet completely addressed in the strategic plan. impacts, and for major upgrades in the global Earth The effective use of the "decision support toolbox" to observing system.
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First, the CCSP should carefully consider the detailed nature of its plan should explicitly build upon the National Polar- commitment to establish and sustain a global Earth BOX 2-4 Planning Climate and Global Change Research (NRC, 2003b) Recommendation The revised strategic plan should better describe a strategic program for achieving an integrated observing system for detecting and understanding climate variability and change and associated global changes on scales from regional to global.
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Revisions to the CCSP Strategic Plan The revised plan includes a new chapter articulating the program's modeling strategy. Applied climate modeling activities are described in Goal 3 of this chapter, "Coordinate and accelerate climate modeling activities and provide relevant decision support information on a timely basis" (CCSP, 2003, pp.
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Revisions to the CCSP Strategic Plan The cabinet-based management structure described in the revised plan's chapter on program management provides executive direction under which CCSP and CCTP activities will be coordinated. Planning and implementation for activities relevant to both programs will be coordinated through interagency working groups (CCSP, 2003, pp.
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research to evaluate "environmental effects of mitigation Though these coordination issues may be resolved as options that involve reduction or prevention of greenhouse the CCTP completes its strategic planning and as both gas emissions" (CCSP, 2003, p.
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