Agclimate telecon 2015-10-06

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Agenda (Joint with Energy & Climate Work Group)

LuAnn Dalhman (NOAA Climate Program Office) on Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT), Case Study template, and process for becoming a CRT Case Study
Amir AghaKouchak (Center for Hydrology and Remote Sensing, UC Irvine) on his current research and what could be a basis for a CRT Case Study. Here's his presentation at the Summer Meeting in Asilomar: Remote sensing of drought: Progress and opportunities for improving drought monitoring in California
Open Discussion
Winter 2016 Meeting theme(s) for our session(s)

Minutes:

October 6th, 2015 Telecon: Discussion Notes

Bill's notes from Oct'15 telecon

Bar's Minutes:

Climate Resiliency Toolkit

Anyone is a potential contributor.
The toolkit - Has been live for one year and is in redesign phase I

Two main parts for contribution:

1. Case Studies - There are 9 topics so far. Can be filtered by topic, region, etc. Agriculture (for example) has close to 100

2. Tools - Behind the scenes. Inter-agency effort Each topic has a “theme leader”

For Case Studies:

There is a metadata template (word document) - redesign is happening soon, but still useful to look at.
There is also a “Tip Sheet” for writing Case Studies:

Ideally looking for a story/narrative in a word file.
400-800 words
protagonist/character with a problem to solve, narrative flow
There are collaborators/science editors willing to work with the text/collaborate

The Case Study Template (a bit outdated) http://bit.ly1k9bQye (zipped file)

10’s of thousands of users per month use the CRT according to Google Analytics
People are going to “Climate Explorer” first, it seems.

Drought Monitoring: Amir

No particular narrative, per se, but with many calls form users and want-to-be-users from all over the world:

Grant to talk to farmers.
Example outputs of model.
Developed a mobile app: drought information tool - GIDMap = online mobile app
four data sources (not real-time, but could be with the proper servers) GPCP / GPM / TRIMM / MER
4km global resolution and near real time.
Only NOAA has the “real time data” - otherwise, wait 72 hours after its published. They run algorithims on NOAA machines.

Climate Resiliency Toolkit:

Classic ingredient for a story - people are callling.
The group is obviously trying to meet the needs of the community, and there are clearly needs in the community.
Example: They are getting a lot of emails about the data. EX: from a small city in northern Canada.
Recipe is to pair scienctists with writers… potential users to show the range

NEXT STEPS

tips available from the CRT
continue to connect researchers with CRT (LuAnn and writers)

Winter Meeting Thoughts/Ideas:

NSF Program Officer: Food/Energy/Water (FEW) -- future proposals/intentions
agro/climatology/crop yield monitoring = enegy and ag at the USDA?
Follow up on collaboration ideas

Attendees:

Bill Teng
Lindsay Barbieri (Bar)
Richard Eckman
Brian Wee
Yonsook Enloe
LuAnn Dahlman
Brent Newman
Seung Kim
Amir AghaKouchak
1 other call-in attendee?