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management of heat island responses, 

and transportation impacts). 

VII. Future Scientific and Societal 

Needs: This section of the report will 

contain information on (1) Science gap 

analysis for this round of assessment; (2) 

Priorities for climate science 

investments (including impacts and 

responses); and (3) Facilitating 

decisions related to climate impacts and 

responses. 

VIII. Appendices: One or more 

appendices to the report will provide 

further information about tools, 

methodologies, guidelines, and 

assumptions for the NCA, including (1) 

long-term data sets; (2) models; (3) 

scales and interactions; (4) scenarios; (5) 

risk; (6) impact assessment; (7) 

vulnerability assessment; (8) economic 

and alternative valuation techniques; (9) 

dealing with uncertainty; (10) detecting 

changes through monitoring and 

observations; (11) knowledge 

management strategies; (12) 

communications and engagement; (13) 

interactions with other types of 

assessments; and (14) building capacity 

within regions and sectors for 

conducting and using assessments in 

the future. 

Next Steps 

The next steps in planning for the 

NCA include gathering inputs on a 

number of issue areas to help define the 

NCA process and expectations for its 

products. Public comments on the above 

NCA objectives and proposed topics and 

on the following issue areas may be 

used by the Interagency National 

Climate Assessment (INCA) Task Force 

and the National Climate Assessment 

Development and Advisory Committee, 

an advisory body being created at the 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration in compliance with the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, in their discussion of 

plans for developing the first draft of the 

this National Climate Assessment. 

Issue Areas: The INCA Task Force has 

identified the need for discussion on 

important tools, methodologies, 

guidelines, and assumptions for 

assessment. USGCRP and the NCA team 

are actively soliciting input on the 

following topics: 

• Knowledge Management, Metadata, 

and Peer Review: How to manage data, 

archiving, quality assurance/quality 

control, peer review, qualifications for 

inclusion of data in official Assessment 

documents; documentation of sources; 

chain of custody of information. 

• Communications and Engagement: 

Ensuring consistent messages about 

what we are trying to accomplish, 

encouraging co-production of 

information between government and 

external stakeholders, coordination with 

other Federal climate-related programs, 

design of documents and tailored 

communications with a variety of 

partners. 

• Economic and Alternative 

Valuation Techniques and Metrics for 

Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, 

and Mitigation: Ways of evaluating the 

effectiveness of adaptation and 

mitigation options using tools that 

acknowledge non-monetary values and 

inter-generational benefits. 

• Vulnerability Assessments: 

Identification of approaches to 

evaluating the relative vulnerability of 

ecological and social communities and 

approaches to prioritization of risk 

across sectors and regions. 

• Planning for Regional and Sectoral 

Assessments: Methods to ensure 

consistent approaches to building 

regional and sectoral components of the 

assessment. 

• Role of International Climate 

Impacts and Responses, and their 

Implications for the United States: The 

ways in which the NCA will consider 

the implications of stresses that are 

generated elsewhere in the globe and to 

consider the global context for the NCA 

process. 

• Scenarios for Climate Change 

Assessment: Methods for the 

development and use of consistent 

projections of possible future conditions 

for use within NCA activities. 

• Climate Change Modeling and 

Downscaling: Issues and methodological 

perspectives related to selecting model 

and downscaling outputs and 

approaches for their use in NCA 

activities. This includes socioeconomic, 

land use, and other model types and 

outputs, in addition to climate model 

outputs. 

• Monitoring Climate Change and its 

Impacts: Selecting from existing 

monitoring and observing systems and a 

variety of impact reports to design an 

integrated, ongoing monitoring system 

for the NCA. This includes establishing 

a long-term, consistent approach to 

documenting climate impacts and 

trends (including developing indicators 

of, e.g., impacts to the built environment 

and energy sectors, impacts on and 

responses of natural systems, socioeconomic and public health trends, and 

disasters and extreme events). 

Ted Wackler, 

Deputy Chief of Staff. 

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