GC31G:
New Approaches to Sustained Climate Assessment in the U.S.: Progress, Collaborations across Scales, and Tools I Posters

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Session ID#: 12769

Session Description:
As climate change impacts and consequences become more apparent, there is increased interest in assessing how these changes will affect communities and how society will respond. Public and private sector entities are undertaking climate-focused assessments at multiple scales in anticipation of decisions about adaptation, mitigation, and building resilience. Some city and state governments have well-established assessment mechanisms, while others are just beginning. Business and industry-focused efforts have aimed at assessing risk and improving planning processes. Nationally, the U.S. Global Change Research Program is preparing the Fourth National Climate Assessment and implementing a sustained assessment process that delivers topical reports and enables synthesis of new information and insights. This session will highlight recent progress across assessments and seek to understand how to better align efforts. Presentations will explore approaches, provide examples of successful capacity building, identify critical dependencies for information and collaboration across scales, and showcase assessment-relevant tools.
Primary Convener:  Fred Lipschultz, US Global Change Research Prog, Senior Scientist (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States
Conveners:  Fred Lipschultz, US Global Change Research Prog, Senior Scientist (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States and Emily Therese Cloyd, US Global Change Research Prog, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Chairs:  Emily Therese Cloyd, US Global Change Research Prog, Washington D.C., DC, United States and Fred Lipschultz, US Global Change Research Prog, Senior Scientist (Contractor), Washington D.C., DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Emily Therese Cloyd, US Global Change Research Prog, Washington D.C., DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

National Climate Assessment - Land Data Assimilation System (NCA-LDAS) Data and services at NASA GES DISC (138469)
Hualan Rui, NASA GES DISC (ADNET Systems Inc.), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Bruce Vollmer, NASA GSFC, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, William L Teng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNET Systems), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David M Mocko, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (SAIC), Greenbelt, MD, United States and Steven J Kempler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
NCA-LDAS: A Terrestrial Water Analysis System Enabling Sustained Assessment and Dissemination of National Climate Indicators (130978)
Michael F Jasinski1, Sujay V Kumar1, Christa D Peters-Lidard2, Kristi R Arsenault3, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing4, John D Bolten5, Jordan Borak6, Steve Kempler7, Bailing Li8, David M Mocko9, Matthew Rodell10, Hualan Rui11, David S Silberstein12, William L Teng11 and Bruce Vollmer13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC HSL (ESSIC University of Maryland), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)NASA/GSFC Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (10)NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States, (11)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNET Systems), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)NASA GSFC, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Climate Scenarios for the Fourth National Climate Assessment and the Sustained Assessment Process (133957)
Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States and David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States
OpenNEX, a private-public partnership in support of the national climate assessment (138848)
Ramakrishna R Nemani1, Weile Wang2, Andrew Michaelis3, Petr Votava3 and Sangram Ganguly1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA/AMES Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (3)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
Enabling Research Tools for Sustained Climate Assessment (182469)
Allison K Leidner, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael G Bosilovich, Earth Sciences Division, Greenbelt, United States, Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ramakrishna R Nemani, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Duane Edward Waliser, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Tsengdar J Lee, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States
SUSTAINED CLIMATE ASSESSMENTS IN CALIFORNIA: LINKAGES WITH LOCAL AND NATIONAL EFFORTS (143756)
Guido Franco, California Energy Commission, Research Division, Sacramento, CA, United States and Louise Wells Bedsworth, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
The Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment (144004)
Jeffrey S Dukes and Melissa Widhalm, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
NOAA’s State Climate Summaries for the National Climate Assessment: A Sustained Assessment Product (148838)
Sarah M Champion, North Carolina State University, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, Leicester, NC, United States, Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States, Rebekah Frankson, North Carolina State University, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina, Asheville, NC, United States, David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States, Jessicca Griffin, North Carolina State University, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), Asheville, NC, United States, Jennifer D Runkle, North Carolina State University, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites North Carolina, Asheville, United States, Laura E Stevens, North Carolina State University, Asheville, United States, Brooke C Stewart, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, United States, Liqiang Sun, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Sara Veasey, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Asheville, NC, United States
Extending the Reach of National Assessments: Addressing Local and Regional Needs (163746)
Kristin Lewis and Tess Carter, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States

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