Research and Networks for Decision Support in the NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (2008) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction: The Sectoral Applications Research Program
1 Introduction: The Sectoral Applications Research Program
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, extended drought conditions in the interior regions, and changes in sea levels. The improved understanding of climate variability and change makes climate science increasingly relevant to local and state governments, natural resource managers, and other decision makers whose responsibility includes the welfare of human populations and ecological systems.
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It also noted the need for collecting and archiving mission-relevant social science data, investing in social science staffing (including at senior levels of administration) , and incorporating social science research objectives in the strategic planning of NOAA line offices.
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• From the Human Dimensions of Global Change Research Program, NOAA developed insight about climate's complex socioeconomic impacts and the potential returns from the integration of the social and physical sciences in support of decision making. • From RISA, NOAA adopted regional, longer term funding.
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The "overarching goals" of SARP include:4 • the provision of new and/or synthesized science-based knowledge that results in the identification and reduction of vulnerability to climate variability and change in key socioeconomic sectors; • the enhanced and increasingly sophisticated use of climate information, including forecasts, in decision making; and • the development of a research and operations agenda that increasingly meets the needs of the nation and NOAA through an understanding by scientists and science managers of stakeholder requirements. 2 From the TRACS fiscal 2007 information sheet.
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It is worth noting that "sector," when defined by function, can distinguish several distinct sets of decision makers within a single sector defined by resource. For example, the water resource management sector includes reservoir managers, irrigators, flood control engineers, and a variety of other functionally defined classes of decision makers whose information needs and decision support requirements may be quite different from each other.
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he CCSP should accelerate efforts in previously underemphasized program elements, including ecosystems, the water cycle, human dimensions, economics, impacts, adaptation, and mitigation, by rapidly strengthening the science plans and institutional support for these areas." Most of these areas -- particularly human dimensions, impacts, and adaptation -- are critical to improved decision making in response to climate information. CCSP expenditures for research in these areas are hard to determine precisely, but as of fall 2006, they were estimated to be about $25-30 million per year (National Research Council, 2007b)
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We interpret "climate information" broadly to include information about climate variability and change at various temporal and spatial scales and information necessary to consider the potential effects of such change on things that people value. Thus, it includes information from seasonal climate forecasts, which describe past climate variability and its relationship with major modes of atmospheric variability, such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
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To provide the strategic advice requested by NOAA, we began by developing and convening a SARP Design Workshop, which was held in Washington, D.C., on November 13, 2006. The event included climate scientists, various individuals and representatives of organizations involved with making science useful for decisions (including the RISAs)
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For All Participants: Why do decision makers in the sector you know best use, or fail to use, potentially relevant information about climate? What conditions make it more likely that the information will be used?
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DECISION SUPPORT IN THE NOAA SARP support. Chapter 3 presents our major conclusions about the need for use-inspired science and communication, the logic undergirding our recommendations regarding the substantive priorities for SARP for the next several years, and the recommendations themselves.
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