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An approach to designing a national climate service

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  • Climate variability and change are considerably important for a wide range of human activities and natural ecosystems. Climate science has made major advances during the last two decades, yet climate information is neither routinely useful for nor used in planning. What is needed is a mechanism, a national climate service (NCS), to connect climate science to decision-relevant questions and support building capacity to anticipate, plan for, and adapt to climate fluctuations. This article contributes to the national debate for an NCS by describing the rationale for building an NCS, the functions and services it would provide, and how it should be designed and evaluated. The NCS is most effectively achieved as a federal interagency partnership with critically important participation by regional climate centers, state climatologists, the emerging National Integrated Drought Information System, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Regional Integrated Sciences Assessment (RISA) teams in a sustained relationship with a wide variety of stakeholders. Because the NCS is a service, and because evidence indicates that the regional spatial scale is most important for delivering climate services, given subnational geographical/geophysical complexity, attention is focused on lessons learned from the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group's 10 years of experience, the first of the NOAA RISA teams.
  • Keywords: Pacific Northwest climate, regional integrated sciences and assessments
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  • Miles, E. L., Snover, A. K., Whitely Binder, L. C., Sarachik, E. S., Mote, P. W., & Mantua, N. (2006, December 26). An approach to designing a national climate service [Electronic version]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(52), 19616-19623. doi:10.1073/pnas.0609090103
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  • This work was supported by a grant from the NOAA Climate Program Office to the Center for Science in the Earth System through the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean under NOAA Cooperative Agreement NA17RJ1232. This is Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean Contribution no. 1357.
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