# Presentation: 241834

## Art DeGaetano

- Director NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center
- Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

**2008 AMS Summer Community Meeting**

## CLIMATE SERVICES MUST

- CLIMATE SERVICES MUST
- BE ROOTED IN USERS

- DATA ARE AT THE CORE  OF CLIMATE SERVICES

- CLIMATE SERVICES  BRANCH TO REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS

- PRODUCTS AND TOOLS ARE THE FRUITS OF CLIMATE SERVICES

## The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.  You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. 

- 												 ~Babe Ruth

## NOAA Regional Climate Centers

## RCC Functions

- 		data systems, user service and monitoring
- Near-real time relational database system,
- 	web-based information resources.
- Infrastructure capabilities grow from user and partner
-         interests and needs.
- Efficiency and robustness
- Program versus individual centers
- Leverage infrastructure to support applied research

- RCC Functions

## ARSCO

## ARSCOs

**Infrastructure**
**connect to data archives at the NCDC, RCCs, and other locations. **
**Multiple dissemination pathways,websites **
**Services**
** ****provide data and information to users, both printed and on-line**
**Research**
**relationships between climate and human activities that impact their state**
**Outreach**
**evaluate the needs of the user community adjusting and developing products and services as required. Educate state citizens people of their states on current and emerging climate issues **
**Awareness**
**promote its program as well as regional and national programs**** **
**Media Contacts**** **
**cultivate print and broadcast media contacts**
**Monitoring and Impact Assessments**
** ****monitor current climate conditions, evaluate potential future**
**       ****impacts and place events in historical perspective**

## Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments

## RISA Expertise

## Government Partners

- NOAA
- Local/Regional Forecast Offices
- NEDIS, NWS OAR, etc.
- Other Federal Agencies
- USDA, BLM, NPS, etc.
- NASA, NSF
- Data, research dollars, models etc.
- National Drought Mitigation Center
- State Government

## Private Industry

- “Big Industry”
- Northrup Grumann
- Investment Banking
- Consultants
- Agricultural, Meteorological, Engineering
- Media
- The Weather Channel, local stations

## So unlike Bugs...... No one group can play all the positions!

## Our collective vision for National Climate Services should  build on existing partnerships. Our goal should be to excel in our positions, but to play as a part of the team.  

## Gettin' good players is easy.  Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.  

**                            ****~Casey Stengel**

## Partnering in Data

**Regional Data Network from the High Plains RCC**

**Partnering in Data**

## Partnering with SCs

**Partnering with SCs**

- Hybrid Coop/CoCoRaHS Precip
-  Maps

## Partnering with NWS

- xmACIS *(NWS Field Office Use)*
**Applied Climate Information System**
**Data query tool for NWS local climate**
**      ****research/local product development, **
**      ****and to answer customer climate record**
**      ****inquiries**
**Complete historical climate database **
**      ****with near real-time update**

**Partnering with NWS**

- NOWData (Public Use)
**Self-service tool**
**Subset of xmACIS**
**Free, limited access**
**Current year and Normals**
**Portal for ACIS and **
**       ****NCDC information**

- http://www.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=btv

## Partnering with NWS/NCDC/Private Industry

**Consistent daily temperature and ****precipitation extremes**

**Partnering with NWS/NCDC/Private Industry**

- http://threadex.rcc-acis.org/

- Likely to be a several different sites

## Partnering with NWS/NCDC

**Data discrepancy reporting**
**400 registered NOAA users**

**Partnering with NWS/NCDC**

## Partnering with NWS/NCDC

**Internet observation entry system**

**Partnering with NWS/NCDC**

## Partnering with Federal Agencies

- AgACIS *(Custom NRCS data and products)*

## Partners with RISAs

## Slide 23

## Partnering in Applied Research

**Trend Identification in Twentieth-Century U.S. Snowfall: The Challenges  **Kenneth E. Kunkel,  Michael A. Palecki,  Kenneth G. Hubbard,  David A. Robinson,  Kelly T. Redmond, and David R. Easterling
*Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology*
**SERVICES: A Modern Applied Climate Information System****	**
- Kenneth G. Hubbard,  Arthur T. DeGaetano, and Kevin D. Robbins
*Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society*
**Winter Orographic Precipitation Ratios in the Sierra Nevada—Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations and Hydrologic Consequences****	**
- Michael Dettinger,  Kelly Redmond, and Daniel Cayan
*Journal of Hydrometeorology ** *
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- RISA - RCC

- RCC – ARCSO - NCDC

- RCC - RCC

## Some thoughts for continued growth and improvement that may capture and nourish the ideas, energy, talent and commitment of the AASC ......

## 	Decision Support instead of raw values 

**Historical climate data essential but not sufficient**
- Past to present to future
- Expand thinking beyond climate .... ecological, social and economic data
**Data encompass more than observations**
**Quality, quantity, scale, uncertainty**
**Climate to weather and back again**
**Decisions do not obey arbitrary time bounds**
**	****Decision Support instead of raw values**** **

## Unnamed ARSCO

- 2007  01	01	53	36	44.5 	0.08
- 2007  01	02	39	31	35	 0.00
- 2007  01	03	49	35	42	 0.00
- 2007  01	04	57	44	50.5 	0.02
- 2007  01	05	57	50	53.5	 0.95
- 2007  01	06	56	41	48.5	 0.29
- 2007  01	07	43	32	37.5	 0.13
- 2007  01	08	44	30	37	 0.15
- 2007  01	09	34	28	31	 0.05
- 2007 01	10	29	22	25.5	      T

**CLIMOD product: Daily Data ****	****	****  ****	****	**
**Month:       January 2007**
**	****	****	****	**
** **_**Day  Max  Min  Avg  Precip**__**	**__** **__**	**_
- 1	53	36	45	0.08
- 2	39	31	35	0.00
- 3	49	35	42	0.00
- 4	57	44	51	0.03
- 5	57	50	54	0.95
- 6	56	41	49	0.28
- 7	43	32	38	0.13
- 8	44	30	37	0.15
- 9	34	28	31	0.05
- 10	29	21	25	0.02

- DY MAX MIN AVG WTR  ===================
- 1     53     36    45  0.08
- 2     39     31    35  0.00
- 3     49     35    42  0.00
- 4     57     44    51  0.03
- 5     57     50    54  0.95
- 6     56     41    49  0.28
- 7     43     32    38  0.13
- 8     44     30    37   0.15
- 9     34     28    31   0.05
- 10   29     21    25  0.02

**Unnamed ARSCO**

**NWS LCD**

## ASOS

## add Coop

## Add MADIS

## Agreement on what components are essential

- A prioritized wish list of additional features
- Input into design specs for new products
- A commitment to adopt scACIS
- Use versus abuse
- Mechanisms to facilitate in-house SC development of state-specific products
- RCC commitment to lowering the programming bar for access to ACIS data

## Build upon acquired stakeholder trust

**Build upon acquired stakeholder trust**
- Trust the team not a particular player
**Shared information, tools and solutions**
**Funding will continue to be at a premium**
**Proactive, evolutionary approach**
**Grounded in tried and true methods**
**Understand changing hazards, consequences, adaptations and assets**
**challenges *****and***** opportunities**

## Potential for expansion to go from climate to weather and back again!

- Potential utility for climate change impact assessment on ground and estuary water quality

## Slide 34

## The RCCs and AASC share a long common history of climate services on behalf of society.

- How will NOAA utilize this partnership to deliver climate information and services that answer social needs in a changing environment?