# Presentation: 141234

## NOAA Climate Program – An Update

**NOAA Climate Program – An Update**

**NOAA Science Advisory Board**
**March 19, 2003**

**Mary M. Glackin**
**NOAA Assistant Administrator**
**Programs, Planning and Integration**

## Recent NOAA Activities

**1. NOAA Program Review**
**	****	****- Matrix-Managed Programs   **
**	****	****- Observation Architecture**
**2. Strategic Planning Activities**
**3. DOC Lead for Climate Change Science Program and Workshop**

## NOAA Organizational Structure

## NOAA Organizational Structure

**AA**

**Program**
**Managers**

**OAR**

**AA**

**Program**
**Managers**

**NESDIS**

**AA**

**Program**
**Managers**

**NOS**

**AA**

**Program**
**Managers**

**NMFS**

**AA**

**Program**
**Managers**

**NWS**

**AA**

***Strategic  ***
***Planning***

**Program,**
**Planning &**
**Integration**

**Program**
**Managers**

**NOAA Organizational Structure**

**NOAA Headquarters**

## NOAA Climate Program Management

**NOAA Climate Program Office**

**Climate and Global Change Working Group**

**Climate Program Board**** **

**NOAA Research**

**Program Manager Chairs Board**
**All NOAA LO’s Represented**
**Provides Oversight to Program Activities**

**SAB**

**Overall Program Management**
**Integration of Climate Activities Across LO’s**
**Interface with CCSP**

**Scientific Advice on Climate Program**

**NOAA Management**

**PPI**

**Council on Long-Term Climate Monitoring**

## NOAA Strategic Plan

**Climate is one of four major goals:**
**	*****Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond*****	**
**Achieved by:**
**Investing in needed climate quality observations and encouraging other national and international investments.**
**Working with national and international partners to increase understanding of the dynamics and impacts of coupled atmosphere/ocean/land systems.**
**Improving its intraseasonal to interannual climate forecasts to enable regional and national managers to plan better for the impacts of climate variability.**
**Providing improved regional, national, and international assessments and projections of climate change to support policy decisions with objective information.**
**Working with users of climate information to enable and increase the application of climate information.**
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## Base Program SummaryMonitor and Observe Strategy - $202.6M

**Collection, archival, quality control, and dissemination of most of the Nation’s climate observations**
**	****	****In Situ Atmospheric Observation****	**
**	****	****Satellite Programs****	****	**
**	****	****Data Management Stewardship****	**
**National and International leadership in the development of a global ocean climate observing system**
**	****	****In Situ Ocean Observation****	****	**
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## Base Program SummaryUnderstand and Describe Strategy- $108.3M

**	****Research based on observations, laboratory and field studies, and modeling for:**
**Understanding the processes that influence ****climate variability****	****	**
**Characterizing the composition of the ****atmosphere, as it relates to radiative forcing ****of the climate system and the ozone layer****	**
**Characterizing the carbon cycle processes ****that determine the fate of carbon emissions ****	**

## An incipient capability for routine seasonal		 climate forecasts out to a year in advance. Routine predictions for the U.S. for 6-10 days, 8-14 days, and monthly. Seasonal hurricane forecasts.	
Leadership in a program of climate assessments	on national and global scales with participation in: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessments; U.S. National Assessment; U.N. Montreal Protocol Ozone Assessments.
Planned ecosystem assessment and forecasting	

**Leadership in a program of climate assessments****	****on national and global scales with participation in: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ****Assessments; U.S. National Assessment; ****U.N. Montreal Protocol Ozone Assessments.**
**Planned ecosystem assessment and forecasting****	**
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**Base Program Summary****Assess and Predict Strategy - $36.7M**

## Development of model-based products for climate change policy applications; enhancement of computational capability
		Climate Change Modeling/Scenario Development 	
A framework to deliver regional climate services consisting of: Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) Centers; Regional Climate Centers; NOS Coastal Services Center; NCDC; NWS regional and local offices

**	****	****Climate Change Modeling/Scenario Development**** ****	**
**A framework to deliver regional climate services ****consisting of: Regional Integrated Sciences and ****Assessment (RISA) Centers; Regional Climate Centers; ****NOS Coastal Services Center; NCDC; NWS regional ****and local offices**
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**Base Program Summary****Engage, Advise, and Inform Strategy - ****$19.0M**

## FY 2004 Base Funding 

**FY 2004 Base Funding**** **
**NOAA Climate Program**

- OAR

_**by NOAA Line Office...**_

_**by NOAA Strategic Categories...**_

## Short Term Management Goals

**Develop Climate Services Program Management Plan**
**Define roles and responsibilities**
**Document decision mechanisms, program  ****	**** ****	****   evaluation plans, etc.**
**Develop NOAA Climate Services Program Plan to complement NOAA Strategic Plan and CCSP**
**Define multi-year program plans**
**Implement recommendation for 50% of new **
**      ****research funds to extramural community**
**Conduct NOAA Climate Review April 1-3**
**Climate and Global Change WG with Council on Long- Term Climate Monitoring representation**

## Responding to CCSP and the Workshop

**Climate Change Science Workshop Dec. 3-5**
**NRC Review, ~900 Pages of comments**
**Some NRC recommendations of interest to NOAA**
**	****	****- Develop closer ties with Climate Change    ****	****	****	****Technology Initiative**
**	****	****- Develop integrated“climate quality” observing    ****	****	****system**
**	****	****- Strengthen decision support capability**
**	****	****- Combine global-scale research with local ****	****	****	****information to produce regional products**

**Notes:**
A chance to talk about NOAA’s ’05 directions without talking about them:
CCTI: Describe carbon program and modeling efforts to evaluate carbon futures
Observing system: Scientific data stewardship and CRN
Modeling: GFDL and the two-center strategy with NCAR
Regional: Example – Planning for California and PNW snowpack changes

## Some NOAA Matrix Management Activities

**Some NOAA Matrix Management Activities**

**Habitat**
**Corals**
**Climate**
**Ocean Exploration**
**Homeland Security**