A13I:
Useful and Usable Data: What Makes Climate Science Actionable? Posters

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Session ID#: 13890

Session Description:
Properly developing and validating climate data, information and knowledge for societal decision making is a critical challenge for scientists. Equally, stakeholder access to data is not sufficient. Only by asking more comprehensive and nuanced climate questions can robust and balanced actions be determined and transparently communicated. But what determines which data are ultimately actionable? What criteria can scientists use to develop, test, and communicate actionable science? Is it sufficient to create useful indices, in a usable format? What scientific framework remains true to the fundamental understanding yet also provides actionable outcomes for decision makers? This session presents (1) initiatives to explore the development of climate indicators critical for decision making,  (2) new tools and techniques for validating key characteristics, (3) methods for providing more comprehensive guidance for the decision making process, and (4) ways to effectively integrate these approaches & tools into the climate model development process and application environments.
Primary Convener:  Caspar M. Ammann, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  William J Gutowski Jr, Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States and Keely Brooks, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Chairs:  William J Gutowski Jr, Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, Caspar M. Ammann, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William J Gutowski Jr, Iowa State University, Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0550 Model verification and validation [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Unleashing Expert Judgment in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (139518)
Patrick T Freeman1, Katharine J Mach1, Michael Mastrandrea2 and Christopher B Field1, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, United States
Dos and don’ts for using climate information for water resource planning and management (154740)
Julie A Vano1, Martyn P Clark2, Bart Nijssen3, Andrew W Wood1, Ethan D Gutmann4 and Dr. Jeffrey Richard Arnold5, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)US Army Corps of Engineers, Climate Preparedness and Resilience Programs, Jacksonville, FL, United States
Useful and Usable Climate Science: Frameworks for Bridging the Social and Physical domains. (161687)
Lawrence Buja, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Integrating Climate Projections into Multi-Level City Planning: A Texas Case Study (Invited) (162315)
Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States, Rodica Gelca, Texas Tech University, Climate Science Center, Lubbock, TX, United States, Zach Baumer, Office of Sustainability, City of Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Gary Gold, Austin Water, Austin, TX, United States
Using Critical Thresholds to Customize Climate Projections of Extreme Events to User Needs and Support Decisions (179149)
Gregg M Garfin1, Alexander Petersen2, Mark Shafer3, Karen MacClune4, Katharine Hayhoe5, Rachel Riley3, Ellu Nasser2, Leah Kos3, Chris Allan6, Melissa Stults7 and Sarah R LeRoy1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Adaptation International, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (4)ISET International, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)ATMOS Research & Consulting, Lubbock, TX, United States, (6)Picher Allan Associates LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
When Does Choice of Downscaling Method Matter in Decision Making? A Case Study with Maple Syrup Production (192400)
Emma Kearney1, Alexander M Bryan2, Joshua M Rapp1, Ambarish Karmalkar3 and Toni Lyn Morelli4, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Northeast Climate Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)University of Rhode Island, Department of Geoscience, Narragansett, RI, United States, (4)USGS Northeast Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Amherst, MA, United States
An Efficient Workflow Environment to Support the Collaborative Development of Actionable Climate Information Using the NCAR Climate Risk Management Engine (CRMe) (197594)
Jonathan L Vigh, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Caspar M. Ammann, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Jared A Lee, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States

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