PA51A:
Climate Research to Applications: Realizing Societal Benefits of Information from US CLIVAR Science Posters


Session ID#: 8820

Session Description:
For over 15 years, the US CLIVAR program has fostered the understanding, monitoring, and prediction of climate variability and change on intraseasonal-to-centennial timescales through coordinated research activities. This session will highlight efforts under the new US CLIVAR science plan to address the challenges of communicating the climate knowledge generated by its activities and to collaborate with research and operational communities that might use this climate knowledge for understanding the range of future climate risks. 

This session invites contributions that describe linkages between US CLIVAR’s past or ongoing science activities with efforts to identify and communicate useable knowledge to end-users. Contributions are particularly sought that connect US CLIVAR activities (e.g. observational analyses, process studies, diagnostics of climate change projections and subseasonal-to-interannual predictions, as well as understanding variability and changes in drought, weather extremes, ocean and atmospheric modes, and sea level rise) to boundary organizations who link scientific understanding to decision-making needs.

Primary Convener:  Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Gregg M Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Caroline Ummenhofer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States and Scott J Weaver, NOAA/NCEP Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States
Chairs:  Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States and Gregg M Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, and Ocean Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Path Forward for U.S. CLIVAR (Invited) (63802)
Robert A Weller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Michael Patterson, US CLIVAR Project Office, Washington, DC, United States
Attribution of extreme events in the western US to human activities (62869)
Roberto J Mera, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
US CLIVAR Extremes Working Group Results, Recommendations, and Recourses (Invited) (63850)
Richard Grotjahn, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States
Incorporating Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Seasonal Crop Scenarios over the Greater Horn of Africa to Support National/Regional/Local Decision Makers (70003)
Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Gregory J Husak, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and James P Verdin, USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States
Filling a capability and decision support gap between weather and seasonal forecasts: The role of USCLIVAR and initiating efforts of its MJO Working Group (Invited) (60694)
Duane Edward Waliser, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Kenneth R Sperber, LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States
Transitioning Empirical Dynamical Models from Research to Operational Subseasonal Forecasting (84849)
Matthew Newman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Jon Gottschalck, NOAA, Climate Prediction Center, Washington, DC, United States, Qin Zhang, NOAA Climate Prediction Center, College Park, United States, Cecile Penland, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States and Prashant D Sardeshmukh, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
The future of CLIVAR- Climate and Ocean - Science (75935)
Detlef Stammer, Universität Hamburg, Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany
The Impact of CLIVAR Science on Society (Invited) (61573)
Lisa M Goddard, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate & Society, Palisades, NY, United States
Development and Application of Future Climate Scenarios for Natural Resource Management in Southwestern Colorado (74423)
Imtiaz Rangwala, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States; Western Water Assessment/CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Renee Rondeau, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Carina Wyborn, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States; Luc Hoffmann Institute, WWF International, Gland, Switzerland, Katherine Renee Clifford, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and William Travis, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States
Assessing the continuum of applications and societal benefits of US CLIVAR science (67262)
Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States and Gregg M Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Decadal prediction by using the CESM: A Case Study on the US 2014-2015 Winter Extreme Event (65782)
Jinbo Xie, IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Minghua Zhang, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States

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