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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2005. Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11204.
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APPENDIXES

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2005. Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11204.
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APPENDIX A
ACRONYMS


APSRU

Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (Australia)


BOR

Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.)


CAEN

Centro de Aperfeiçoamento de Economistas do Nordeste/Center for the Improvement of Northeastern Economics (Brazil)

CHIEX

Climate and Health Information Exchange

CIG

Climate Impacts Group (U.S.)

COGERH

Companhia de Gestão dos Recursos Hídricos/Water Resource Management Company (Brazil)

CPC

Climate Prediction Center (U.S.)

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia)


DNR&M

Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines (Australia)

DPI&F

Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (Queensland, Australia)


ENSO

El Niño/Southern Oscillation


FUNCEME

Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos/State Foundation for Meteorology and Hydrology (Brazil)


IAI

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

IRI

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction


KAS

knowledge-action system


MCV

Managing Climate Variability


NCEP

National Center for Environmental Prediction (U.S.)

NGOs

nongovernmental organizations

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)

NOAA/OGP

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Global Programs

NRCS

Natural Resources Conservation Service

NWS/PR

National Weather Service/Pacific Region (U.S.)


OGP

Office of Global Programs (U.S., within NOAA)


PBDC

Pacific Basin Development Council

PEAC

Pacific ENSO Applications Center (U.S., U.S.-API)

PNW

Pacific Northwest (U.S.)


QCCA

Queensland Center for Climate Applications (Australia)


RISA

Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment program (U.S.)


S&T

science and technology

SEPLAN

Secretaria do Planejamento e Coordenação/State Planning Secretariat (Brazil)


UFC

Federal University of Ceará (Brazil)

UH/SOEST

University of Hawai’i/School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (U.S.)

UOG/WERI

University of Guam/Water and Energy Research Institute (U.S.)

USAPI

U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands (U.S.)


WMO

World Meteorological Organization

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2005. Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11204.
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The National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted a workshop "Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting" in 2004 to discover and distill general lessons about the design of effective systems for linking knowledge with action from the last decade's experience with the production and application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts. Workshop participants described lessons they had learned based on their experiences developing, applying, and using decision support systems in the United States, Columbia, Brazil, and Australia. Some of the key lessons discussed, as characterized by David Cash and James Buizer, were that effective knowledge-action systems: define and frame the problem to be addressed via collaboration between knowledge users and knowledge producers; tend to be end-to-end systems that link user needs to basic scientific findings and observations; are often anchored in "boundary organizations" that act as intermediaries between nodes in the system - most notably between scientists and decision makers; feature flexible processes and institutions to be responsive to what is learned; use funding strategies tailored to the dual public/private character of such systems; and require people who can work across disciplines, issue areas, and the knowledge–action interface.

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