Planning Climate and Global Change Research A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (2003) / Chapter Skim
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These efforts indicate a strong interest on the part of the CCSP in developing a plan that is consistent with current scientific thinking and is responsive to the nation's needs for information on climate and associated global changes. The CCRI portion of the plan introduces an admirable emphasis on the need for science to address national needs, including support for those in the public and private sectors whose decisions are affected by climate change and variability.
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The draft plan lists a multitude of proposed activities, but does not identify which of these activities are The revised strategic plan also must present clear and consistent goals for the CCRI. The draft plan states that to be included in the CCRI, a program must produce both significant decision or policy-relevant deliverables within two to four years and contribute significantly to one of the following activities: improve scientific understanding; optimize observations, monitoring, and data management systems; and develop decision support resources.
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The program management chapter of the revised CCSP strategic plan should clearly describe mechanisms for coordinating and linking its activities with the technology development activities of the CCTP. The plan currently describes scientific planning committees that will be composed of independent experts to help the agencies plan specific program elements, as has been done for the carbon cycle, the water cycle, climate observations, climate modeling, and elsewhere.
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6 Recommendation: The revised plan should strengthen its approach to the human, economic, and ecological dimensions of climate and associated global changes to PLANNING CLIMA TE AND GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH ensure it supports the research necessary to project and monitor societal and ecosystem impacts, to design adaptation and mitigation strategies, and to understand the costs and benefits of climate change and related response options. The draft strategic plan does a better job of identifying links between chapters and crosscutting themes than in the past, but, overall, the coordination among many individual program components is poor.
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The revised plan also should better describe how decision support capabilities will be developed and how these efforts will link with and inform the program's research to improve understanding of climate and associated global changes. The draft strategic plan's description of applied climate modeling is quite insightful, reasonably well focused, and well grounded with respect to the priorities for climate modeling research and applications over the next decade.
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Recommendation: The revised strategic plan should build upon the lessons learned in applied climate studies and stakeholder interaction from prior environmental and climate assessment activities. SET THE STAGE FOR IMPLEMENTATION The draft strategic plan calls for a multitude of research and decision support advances, including a greatly strengthened climate modeling infrastructure to address local, regional, national, and international needs; increased collaboration on key scientific challenges; a significantly upgraded global climate observing system that includes climate-quality data management; and a suite of sophisticated informational products for decision makers who in many cases are new to climate change science.
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Recommendation: The CCSP should use the clear goals and program priorities of the revised strategic plan and advice from the independent advisory body recommended by the committee to guide future funding · ~ ~ .eclslons.
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