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CLIMATE SCIENCE INITITATIVE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
ISU Climate Science Initiative
Eugene S. TakleProfessor of Atmospheric Science
Department of Geological and Atmospheric SciencesProfessor of Agricultural Meteorology
Department of AgronomyIowa State University
Ames, Iowa [email protected]
Combined Faculty MeetingAgronomy and GEAT
24 January 2008
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Outline Status of climate science
– Climate change and climate variability– Understanding and prediction regional-scale climate change and variability and their
impacts– Time scales for future climate scenarios
What do we do now? ISU’s role– NARCCAP– MiCCA– MRED– Climate Science Initiative
Brief history Current status Developing linkages, faculty engagement Future visions
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CO2, CH4 and temperature records from Antarctic ice core data
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“Business as Usual”
950 ppm
?
Carbon Dioxide and Temperature
CLIMATE SCIENCE INITITATIVE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers
Reduced ConsumptionEnergy intensive
Energy conserving
CLIMATE SCIENCE INITITATIVE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers
The planet is committed to a warming over the next 50 years regardless of political decisions
Energy intensive
Energy conservingReduced Consumption
CLIMATE SCIENCE INITITATIVE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers
The planet is committed to a warming over the next 50 years regardless of political decisions
Energy intensive
Energy conservingReduced Consumption
CLIMATE SCIENCE INITITATIVE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers
The planet is committed to a warming over the next 50 years regardless of political decisions
Energy intensive
Energy conservingReduced Consumption
CLIMATE SCIENCE INITITATIVE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers
Reduced ConsumptionEnergy intensive
Energy conserving
AdaptationNecessary
MitigationPossible
CLIMATE SCIENCE INITITATIVE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers
Observed summer (June-July-August) daily maximum temperature changes (K) between 1976-2000 (Adapted from Folland et al. [2001]).
D. Herzmann, Iowa Environmental Mesonet
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What To Do Now? North American Regional Climate
Change Assessment Program Midwest Consortium for Climate
Assessment (MiCCA) (proposed to NOAA)
Multi-RCM Downscaling of CFS Seasonal Forecasts (MRED) (proposed to NOAA)
ISU Climate Science Initiative
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What To Do Now? North American Regional Climate
Change Assessment Program (WJG lead)
Midwest Consortium for Climate Assessment (MiCCA) (proposed to NOAA)
Multi-RCM Downscaling of CFS Seasonal Forecasts (MRED) (proposed to NOAA)
ISU Climate Science Initiative
North America Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
Global models do not have sufficient spatial resolution to provide climate information at scales needed for decision-making on adapting to climate change
Use results of global climate models of future scenario climates as boundary conditions for regional climate models
Develop scenarios of contemporary and future climate at spatial scales of 50 km for use in assessing impacts of climate change
Terrain and land-sea boundaries in the Hadley Centre global climate model
Example Regional Model Example Regional Model DomainDomain
North America Regional Climate Change Assessment Program: Participants
Lead agency: NSF, with contributions from NOAA and DOE
R. Arritt, D. Flory, W. Gutowski, E. Takle, Iowa State University, USAR. Jones, E. Buonomo, W. Moufouma-Okia, Hadley Centre, UKD. Caya, S. Biner, OURANOS, CanadaD. Bader, P. Duffy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, USAF. Giorgi, ICTP, Italy I. Held, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USAR. Leung, Y. Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, USAL. Mearns, D. Middleton, D. Nychka, S. McInnes, NCAR, USAA. Nunes, John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USAS. Sain, Univ. of Colorado at Denver, USAL. Sloan, M. Snyder, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA
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What To Do Now? North American Regional Climate
Change Assessment Program Midwest Consortium for Climate
Assessment (MiCCA) (proposed to NOAA) (EST lead)
Multi-RCM Downscaling of CFS Seasonal Forecasts (MRED) (proposed to NOAA)
ISU Climate Science Initiative
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How Will New Trends and Variability of Regional Climate Change Affect
Crop & horticulture production
Soil erosion Conservation practices Water supplies Streamflow Water quality Beef and pork daily gains Livestock breeding success Milk and egg production Crop and livestock pests and
pathogens
Agricultural tile drainage systems
Natural ecosystem species distributions
Human health Building designs Recreation opportunities River navigation Roads and bridges
Who will provide authoritative information?How will it be delivered?
Proposed new Midwest Consortium for Climate Assessment (MiCCA)
Midwest Consortium for Climate Assessment (MiCCA)
MiCCA’s mission is to translate and enhance the latest NOAA climate forecast products to maximize economic gains for agricultural producers and their agribusiness service providers in the U.S. Midwest through use of advanced regional models, interactive web-based decision-making tools, and high-volume customized delivery and feedback through the existing integrated regional, state, and county level extension service network throughout the 9-state region (MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, MI, IN, OH, KY).
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Midwest Consortium for Climate Assessment (MiCCA)
Create seasonal climate forecasts for the Midwest
Use ensembles of advanced regional climate models interactive web-based decision-making tools,
Translate and enhance the latest NOAA climate forecast products to maximize economic gains
Use high-volume customized delivery and feedback through the county level extension service network
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What To Do Now? North American Regional Climate
Change Assessment Program Midwest Consortium for Climate
Assessment (MiCCA) (proposed to NOAA)
Multi-RCM Downscaling of CFS Seasonal Forecasts (MRED) (proposed to NOAA) (RWA lead)
ISU Climate Science Initiative
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Seasonal Forecasting (MRED project)
Weather forecasting is short-term (few days to 2 weeks)
Climate projection is for decades Seasonal forecasting has had less
attention, despite practical needs:– agriculture, construction
and repair, transportation, etc.
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Seasonal Forecasting (MRED project)
MRED project is patterned after NARCCAP:– uses output from the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP) global model as input to fine-scale regional models
– many of the same participants as NARCCAP
ISU has done some exploratory work using a similar approach.
Project has been proposed to NOAA.
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What To Do Now? North American Regional Climate
Change Assessment Program Midwest Consortium for Climate
Assessment (MiCCA) (proposed to NOAA)
Multi-RCM Downscaling of CFS Seasonal Forecasts (MRED) (proposed to NOAA)
ISU Climate Science Initiative (EST lead)
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ISU Climate Science Initiative Launched by Vice President Brighton Colleges of Agric, Engr, LAS have taken
leadership, but broad campus research participation will be emphasized
Build on research strengths in regional climate modeling, agriculture, water, landscapes, engineering
Vision: That Iowa State will be the leading US university in forecasting climate at regional scales with lead times of two weeks to multi-decadal for use in decision-making. A major component of the nation’s food supply and renewable fuel supply is vulnerable to both natural cycles of climate and changes due to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases. Failure to anticipate major floods and droughts of regional scale will create profound shocks to the nation’s economy. Recent advances in forecasting global climate out to nine years by use global climate models initialized with new measurements of “ocean heat content” as reported in Science raise prospects for increased predictability on seasonal and longer time scales for the Midwest region.
Climate Science Initiative
Climate Science Initiative:Progress So Far
Held informational meeting Nov 26– 75 attended (additional 20 sent regrets)– 59 faculty, 16 staff/admin– 22 departments, 5 colleges
Reported back to VPRED advisory team– VP Brighton, Deans Wintersteen, Whiteford, Kushner– Approval to move forward– Hired web master, invite speakers
Forming Climate Science Initiative Council Forging linkages with other programs
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Bioeconomy Institute Plant Sciences Institute CyberInnovation Institute Center for Carbon-Capturing Crops Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and
Discovery Research Computing Council Ames Laboratory CARD ISU Extension Service Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing
Build Links to other Institutes and Centers
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Examples of Studying Impacts of Climate Change
Impact of land-use and climate change on future landscape change (C. Kling, CART)
Impact of climate change on stream flow in UMRB (C. Kling, P. Gassman, M. Jha, CARD)
Impact of climate change on tile drainage flow (A. Kaleita, M. Helmers, A&BE)
Pavement performance under climate change (C. Williams, CCEE)
Changes in wind speed and wind power under climate change (S. Pryor, Indiana U)
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“…leadership in cyberinfrastructure may well become the major determinant in measuring pre-eminence in higher education among nations.”
Future Role of Cyberinfrastructure in Universities
Arden L. Bement, Jr.Director, National Science Foundation
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Virtual Environmental Observatories
Assemble comprehensive historical databases on environmental measurements– Meteorological– Streamflow– Ground water– Soil moisture– Soil carbon– Crop growth– Water quality– Air quality
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Virtual Environmental Observatories: Assemble comprehensive historical databases on
environmental measurements Meteorology, streamflow, ground water, soil
moisture, soil carbon, crop growth, water quality, air quality
Landscape information (elevations, soil types, land-use, land cover, animal/bird populations, drainage, tillage, cropping patterns, chemical application, conservation practices, ownership, etc.)
Human demographics (population, built environment, pollutant sources, etc.)
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Virtual Environmental Observatories:
Assemble dynamical models for imposing physical constraints and consistency
Physical laws Balances Consistency
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Virtual Environmental Observatories:
Forecast future conditions with applications to
Extreme weather events Flood/drought impacts Roadway safety Emergency management Advance preparedness Toxic releases Crop development Agriculture decision-making
– purchase, tillage, planting, marketing Recreational opportunities
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Continue to solicit faculty participation Form Council Build off-campus partnerships Seek funding opportunities Establish grants facilitation Prepare to compete for a presidential
initiative Prepare to compete for a
federally funded center
Where Do We Go From Here?