U14A:
Determining Matured Science: Utility, Cases, and Formats
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Session ID#: 12971
Session Description:
Scientific progress is characterized by new knowledge claims, and by overturning and defending old results. What begins as a multitude of supporting or competing claims undergoes a process of weeding out, with premature or false claims identified. During this process, “mature” science emerges: an integral understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current research, the foundations on which this research is based, and how this research best can be used when dealing with real-world issues.
Here, we focus on the process of knowledge maturation through Climate Science: to clarify a more efficient means for promoting scientific progress and to better support stakeholders confronted with allegedly “best” results and post-normal situations; when scientific results are valued more for their societal implications and less for their scientific clarity or the logic of their methodology.
How can we best achieve, document, and utilize mature science for research, decision-making, management, and science planning?
Primary Convener: Hans von Storch, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Conveners: Thomas F Stocker, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Allan Graubard, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, United States
Chairs: Hans von Storch, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany and Allan Graubard, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison: Hans von Storch, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Francis W Zwiers, University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada
Valerie Masson-Delmotte1,2, Panmao Zhai3,4, Anna Pirani5,6, Anna Pirani5,6 and Jan S Fuglestvedt7, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)IPCC Working Group I co-chair, Université Paris Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France, (3)CMA China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, (4)IPCC Working Group I co-chair, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Technical Support Unit of IPCC WGI, Université Paris Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France, (6)Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Earth System Physics, Trieste, Italy, (7)Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Warren M Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Marcus Reckermann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, International Baltic Earth Secretariat, Geesthacht, Germany and Anders Tuve Omstedt, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Richard B. Norgaard, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
S George Philander, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
