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5 Partnerships Essential for Implementation
5 Partnerships Essential for Implementation
Pages 81-94
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NOAA alone cannot create high-quality CDRs that satisfy the broad user communities of today and provide climate data stewardship for future generations. Fortunately NOAA's plan to create CDRs is of interest to a variety of national and international programs that share similar goals.
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The CDSCs are responsible for climate observations in support of CCSP research themes, similar in scope and responsibility to the Thematic Climate Data Record (TCDR) teams.
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involves wide agency participation, and its access to the highest levels of government provides a framework that addresses most of the concerns (lessons learned) and issues highlighted in previous chapters for NOAA.
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. Given that the operational meteorological community now formally recognizes climate as a mission, along with the related aspects required to develop climate data records, several of the previous recommendations can be restated from the CDR perspective.
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. The primary objectives are to provide NASA with continuation of global change observations after EOS Terra and Aqua and to provide NPOESS with risk reduction demonstration and validation of critical NPOESS sensors, their algorithms, and their processing strategies.
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Although these agencies are not considered major contributors to satellite climate data record efforts, they do represent large and important user communities of CDRs, and they could provide useful insight needed for creating CDRs. For some CDR needs they may also be willing to share costs for the generation of the CDR, and they may be able to provide in situ data that is essential for verifying and improving CDRs.
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Using an organizational model such as NOPP would establish the CDR development process as a new, independent cooperative structure among the interested and contributing agencies. NOAA and Academic Partners Although NOAA's relationships with academic partners have been primarily focused on applied research for operations, academic partners have conducted climate research under NOAA funding through several key Cooperative Institutes and grants funded by such NOAA programs as the Office of Global Programs, Office of Research and Technology Applications, National Marine Fisheries Service, Coastal Ocean Program, National Undersea Research Program, and the Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program.
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There is a long history of private sector environ mental data relationships with NOAA and NASA that may be considered for use with CDRs. Among the NOAA programs through which private sector partners can be funded include the National Sea Grant College Program (a partnership and bridge between government, academia, industry, scientists, and private citizens)
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, and expanding the spatial coverage of the network in order to provide the best in situ data needed to answer critical climate questions. In the area of regional climate NOAA is working with the Western Governors Association to plan a drought monitoring network.
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, Radarsat International, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) , formerly the National Space Development Agency of Japan, all of which can facilitate development of many of the FCDRs required for supporting the family of CDRs.
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. NOAA currently has both a data supply, participatory involvement, and data archival role in the ISCCP and GPCP projects, but not the broad proactive, leadership role across the climate community that is required to take on the stewardship necessary for achieving global acceptance of the family of CDRs.
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The key element is for NOAA to retain leadership, stewardship or, in essence, act as the executive agent for the climate community and request support from one of these existing organizations to accept the role of imple menting organization for the CDR process on a full participatory basis. If the implementing organization were to fail to function properly or were to go out of existence, NOAA would retain the responsibility for maintaining the CDR process within its own or another organizational structure, while con taining the basic recommended organization elements.
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Even with interagency and international support, this is a new commitment to support the broad climate science community, and will need greater funding than NOAA has previously committed.
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