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NWS Climate Services Division and NWS Hydrologists in the Field
Summer Hydrologist-in-Charge Meeting
July 30, 2008
Ahsha Tribble, Ph.D.Chief, Climate Services Division (CSD)
NOAA National Weather Service
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NOAA Climate Goal
Understand and describe climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to plan and respond
3 Themes:
Climate Observations and Monitoring (Tom Karl - NESDIS)
Climate Research and Modeling (V. Ramaswamy – OAR)
Climate Services Development (Chet Koblinsky [Acting] – OAR)
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About CSD and Its Support to the NWS Hydrologic Sciences Community
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Working CSD Vision and Mission
Climate Services Vision: A National Weather Service leading the delivery of relevant and timely climate products and information to our field offices, our partners, our customers, and the Nation to enable informed societal and economic
decision making at all levels.
Climate Services Mission: To ensure NWS develops and delivers an end-to-end
suite of climate variability and change products and information through strategic planning, user
engagement, product and policy development, integration of research and assessments,
partnerships, outreach, and training.
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What Does the Climate Services Division Do?
Strategic vision for NWS Climate Services
NWS policy and requirements for climate products and services
Training courses and modules for NWS field staff
Local climate products and services
Stewardship of the national climate record
User requirements and customer interaction
Outreach
Portal for NOAA’s official position on climate change and variability (new)
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Field Interaction
6 Climate Services Program Managers (CSPMs)
Your contact point and coordination mechanism to other field offices and OCWWS
Lead the climate program in the Region
247 Climate Services Focal Points (CSFPs)
Lead the climate program in the local offices
Amounts to 0.5 FTE per office
https://ocwws.weather.gov/intranet/climate/directory.php
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This document:
Describes climate services delivery by NWS Regional and Forecast Offices
Defines actions necessary to successfully implement climate services at the regional and local levels in NWS
Climate Services Operations Document
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/csd/Documents/Ops2.pdf
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CSD’s Role to Support RFCs
Liaison between the RFCs and CPC
Liaison between the RFCs and the Climate Program Office (i.e., RISAs)
Enhanced CSD knowledge of OHD activities to better serve RFCs
Develop relationship with your new Service Coordination Hydrologists (SCH) for outreach activities
Promote the services of the RFCs (e.g., precipitation estimate analysis…)
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CSD – HSD: New Initiatives
HydroMet Testbed and Climate Testbed coordination
Integrated Water Resources Science and Services (IWRSS) as venue for CSD/HSD collaboration
CSD and HSD coordinated NIDIS requirements
Outreach exchange (https://ocwws.weather.gov
/intranet/climate/ )
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Climate Services Survey
CSD tasked to conduct a Customer Satisfaction Survey on NWS climate products and services
Using HSD Survey as a model
Your input is encouraged!
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Spatial Climatology Product
Current use of PRISM
NCDC development of alternative software to PRISM
Go To Meeting in near future to describe and discuss its science, format, applications, and status
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2-way Visitor’s Program
Re-establish the Visitor’s Program from field/partners to CSD
Create a Visitor’s Program from CSD to the field
(budget dependent)
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Potential Roles of RFCs in NWS Climate Services
(Discussion Topics)
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RFC’s Role: Training
Development:Provide training requirements
Relevance review / feedback process
Use of RFC staff as instructors
Training Courses:Climate Variability and Operational Climate Services courses
Distance Learning Materials:
Climate Services Infrastructure
Climate Variability
CPC and Local Climate Product Science, Tools, Format, Interpretation
Climate Observations
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RFC’s Role: Climate Data and Observations
RFCs are the primary internal NWS climate data users.
RFCs should contribute to setting requirements for:
Data quality, coverage, and continuity
Data and monitoring products: content, format, etc.
Ideas to routinely collect these requirements?
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RFC’s Role: Local Hydro-climate Products
3 Month Outlook of Local El Nino / La Nina Impacts on Temperature and Precipitation (3MOLEI)
Participation in internal review
Hydro- users feedback
Internet-based Local Product Development Tools in ~FY10 (composite, trend analysis, time series, etc.)
Learning local climate specificities and sensitivities
Local offices-driven operational product development
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RFC’s Role: Promoting Interaction with NWS WFOs
Providing Hydrologic Products and Services within climate variability content
Climate Variability and Change can serve as additional common ground for:
Joint user outreach activities
Requirements for new product and services
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Questions/Comments
We need your ideas and input!