PA001
Actionable Climate Tools and Data: Rigorous, Accessible Products Tailored to User Needs

Session ID#: 83436

Session Description:
Actionable tools that provide climate data in readily accessible, usable formats to people with specific information needs must be developed to support and enable climate change action.  Development of truly actionable tools requires: communication and facilitation bridging the scientific, policy, and practitioner communities, and technological expertise to transform massive datasets to locally or regionally relevant proxies that enable action while maintaining scientific rigor.  This session seeks to connect scientists producing and policymakers using data with technical experts creating novel visualization and computing platforms.  We welcome abstracts that share success stories or novel pathways on establishment of long-term relationships between scientists, stakeholders, and code developers; on enabling communication between groups; or on production of usable science data and informatics and tools.  We also seek forward-looking approaches that address challenges and opportunities from forthcoming high-resolution data (i.e. CMIP6 or, socio-economic and environmental data) and methods for presenting multiple concurrent events and stressors.
Co-Organized:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

1918 Decision analysis [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Owen M Doherty, Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  David Herring, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Marjorie B. Kaplan, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Rutgers Climate Institute, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Owen M Doherty, Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
Climatic zoning for multiple biomes: mobile app to scale up forest restoration in Brazil. (486341)
Hewlley A Imbuzeiro, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Agricultural Engineering, Vicosa, Brazil and Heitor Filpi, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil
 
eWaterCycle: Putting the Public in Charge is Only FAIR (491842)
Caitlyn A Hall1, Rolf Hut2, Niels Drost3, Nick Van De Giesen4, Ben van Werkhoven3, Jerom P.M. Aerts4, Berend Weel3, Inti Pelupessy3, Yifat Dzigan3, Stefan Verhoeven3, Gijs van den Oord3, Ronald van Haren3, Maarten van Meersbergen3, Eric Hutton5, Fakhereh Alidoost3, Jaro Camphuijsen3 and Bouwe Andela3, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (5)Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Lessons Learned from the Evaluation of Web-based Climate Data and Analysis Tools (506689)
Kristin VanderMolen1, Tamara U Wall1 and Britta Daudert2, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute Reno, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States
 
AgroClimate: Actionable and educational climate-based tools for the Southeast USA (508002)
Clyde Fraisse, University of Florida, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and AgroClimate team
 
Modelling tools development for assessing façade based PV feasibility in a data-scarce developing nation using open source technology (510535)
Santhosh Jois, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, Mumbai, India, Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Computer Science and Engineering, Mumbai, India and Vivek Agarwal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Electrical Engineering, Mumbai, India
 
Improving the Local Climate Analysis Tool by Incorporating User Input (517158)
Fiona M.C. Horsfall1, Marina M Timofeyeva-Livezey1, Jenna C Meyers1, Jennifer Kennedy2, Michael Churma1, Michael Coulman3, James F Fox4 and David Michelson5, (1)NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)National Weather Service, Science and Technology Integration Office, Meteorological Development Laboratory,, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, United States
 
Making User Tools Resilient: A Case of Incorporating Changing Climate Science into Exposure Mapping Tools in New Jersey (539514)
Matt Campo1, Lisa Marie Auermuller2, Jeanne Herb1, Lucas Marxen3, Robert E Kopp4 and Richard Lathrop5, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University, NJ Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJAES Office of Research Analytics, New Brunswick, United States, (4)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (5)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
 
Quick Analysis Tool for Global Atmospheric Data using Python Tkinter GUI widgets to drive Python Matplotlib plotting (544502)
Rita A Smith1, Sunny Sun-Mack2, Yan Chen2 and Ricky R Brown2, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
 
A systematic evaluation of climate services and decision support tools for climate change risk management (548477)
Momtaz Jahan, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States, Mitch Woodhouse, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Julia Reis, Virginia Tech, Biological Systems Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Julie Elizabeth Shortridge, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
The Laurentian Great Lakes and Actionable Climate Tool Production Over the Past 5 Years: From Past Packages, to Flashy Dashboards, Switching to Tomorrow's Applications with Offline Capability - Highlights of Current Software and Web Development Platforms for Future Applications (552796)
Joeseph Smith, Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Customizing an interactive hydroclimate dashboard for large lakes in Africa (554473)
Andrew Gronewold1, Mairna Askar2, Jennani Jayoram2, Zihao Chen2, Hong Xuan Do3, Mexford Mulumpwa4, Cosmo Ngongondo5 and Geoffrey Chavula6, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Adelaide, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, Adelaide, SA, Australia, (4)Malawi Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Monkey Bay, Malawi, (5)University of Malawi, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, (6)The Malawi Polytechnic, Department of Civil Engineering, Blantyre, Malawi
 
Processing and Transforming Downscaled Climate Projections for Users in Hawai‘i (557255)
Abby G Frazier, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
User-Friendly R-Code for Data Extraction from CMIP6 outputs (558644)
Elcin Kentel1, Omer Burak Akgun1 and Buket Mesta2, (1)Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, Ankara, Turkey, (2)Middle East Technical University, Earth System Sciences Program, Ankara, Turkey
 
Improving Climate Data Visualization and Information Dissemination on the U.S. Drought Portal through User Experience (UX) Design (565850)
Kathryn Bevington, CU/CIRES NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, Steve Ansari, NOAA Asheville, NCEI/NIDIS, Asheville, United States, Rocky Bilotta, ISciences, LLC/NIDIS, Asheville, NC, United States, Alec B. Courtright, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States and Adam Lang, CU/CIRES NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, United States
 
Building A User Persona and Story Repository to Improve NASA EOSDIS Application Development (566878)
Jeff Siarto, Element 84, Inc., Alexandria, VA, United States
 
Data Accessibility Portals (DAPs): Generic web-based tools to disseminate data, knowledge and awareness on climate and environmental change (569368)
Ali Nazemi, Concordia University, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, Shakil Jiwa, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and Reetesh Singh, National Instiute of technology, Hamirpur, Hamirpur, India
 
The Copernicus Climate Data Store: ECMWF’s approach to providing online access to climate data and tools (581373)
Cedric Bergeron1, Carlo Buontempo1, Jean-noel Thepaut1, Angel Lopez Alos1, Baudouin Raoult2 and Gionata Biavati1, (1)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Copernicus, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Forecast Departement, Reading, United Kingdom
 
The Temperate Approach: Putting Climate Change Data Into A Decision-Making Context (584347)
Jessica Cahail and Andrew Fink-Miller, Azavea, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
MINT: An intelligent interface for understanding the impacts of climate change on hydrological, agricultural and economic systems (593416)
Deborah Khider1, Yolanda Gil1, Kelly M Cobourn2, Ewa Deelman3, Christopher Duffy4, Rafael Ferreira da Silva5, Armen Kemanian6, Craig Knoblock7, Vipin Kumar8, Scott Dale Peckham9, Yao-Yi Chiang10, Dan Feldman11, Daniel Garijo1, Daniel Hardesty Lewis12, Ankush Khandelwal8, Rajiv Mayani13, Maximiliano Osorio14, Minh Pahm11, Suzanne A Pierce15, Jay Pujara11, Varun Ratnakar1, Lele Shu16, Hae Jin Song11, Basel Shbita14, Maria Stoica17, Binh Vu11 and Lissa Pearson18, (1)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (3)USC Information Sciences Inst., Marina Del Rey, CA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute,, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (7)University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA, United States, (8)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (12)Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, TX, United States, (13)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angles, United States, (14)University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, United States, (15)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (16)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (17)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)The university of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
 
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Vanessa M Escobar, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, DC, United States, Molly Elizabeth Brown, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Guy Schumann, Remote Sensing Solutions, Pasadena, United States and Sara Owens, FEMA, Washington DC, DC, United States
 
A Dynamic Global Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Risk Map (609348)
Benjamin Strauss, Scott Andrew Kulp, Leila Hadj-Chikh and Daniel H Rizza, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
The Flood Disruption Scale: Communicating High Resolution Flood Hazard Modeling and Mapping in the Charleston South Carolina Region (612221)
Landon Knapp, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Norman S Levine, College of Charleston, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States and Sarah Watson, S.C. Sea Grant Consortium/Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments, Charleston, SC, United States
 
The Holy Grail: Curating Scientifically Robust, Actionable Tools to Support Climate Resilient Policy and Stakeholder Needs (Invited) (619084)
Susan Wilhelm, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States, Leah Fisher, State of California, Strategic Growth Council, Sacramento, CA, United States and Nuin-Tara Key, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, Sacramento, CA, United States
 
Production and Application of Regional Sea Level Rise Projections (621362)
Peter J Leech, Palm Beach County, Office of Resilience, West Palm Beach, FL, United States
 
NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite Applications Program: Advancing Earth Science Applications Discovery (621616)
Sabrina Delgado Arias1, Molly Elizabeth Brown2, Amy Steiker3, Steve Tanner3, Michael F Jasinski4 and Tom Neumann5, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Lagrangian Ice Tracking System: LITS – A Community Tool for Managing Sea Ice (628077)
Stephanie Pfirman, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Bruno Tremblay, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Robert Newton, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, G Garrett Campbell, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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Natasha Sadoff1, Amy Leibrand2, Tanya Maslak2 and Amy Thomas1, (1)Battelle Columbus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Battelle, Columbus, United States
 
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John W Nielsen-Gammon1, Jay Banner2, Darrel M Tremaine2, Huilin Gao3 and Richard Hoffpauir4, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Hoffpauir Consulting, PLLC, Bryan, TX, United States
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