SY043-06
Using research gaps to shape the Fifth National Climate Assessment process.

Friday, 11 December 2020: 16:16
Virtual
Samantha Basile1, Ashley Bieniek-Tobasco2, Joshua Hernandez1, Christopher William Avery3 and James Michael Kuperberg4, (1)US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, (3)US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States, (4)Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC, United States
Abstract:
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a quadrennial assessment mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The report, led by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, evaluates the current state of the science of global change and analyzes the effects of global change on regions and sectors of the United States. In addition, each NCA is required to analyze trends in global change for the subsequent 25 to 100 years. To date, four NCAs have been released, the most recent in 2018. Work on the fifth assessment, NCA5, is currently underway.

Previous USGCRP products provide a foundation of knowledge that can inform the NCA5 framework, especially by leveraging research gaps, or scientific topics that aren’t fully understood. Research gaps from six reports were analyzed, elucidating persistent themes and multiple ways to communicate uncertainty. This talk will elaborate on how those themes as well as shifts in the narratives between NCA3 and NCA4 can inform authors in developing NCA5.

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