Science to Action – Decision-Makers Staying Afloat Rather than Drowning in Big Climate Data

Session ID#: 120685

Session Description:
This session will explore how climate and weather data is gathered and shaped to fit utilities’ and energy-stakeholders’ needs. Recent events (Aug 2020: California heatwaves, Feb 2021: Texas cold-snap) illustrate challenges posed by climate change/variability, underscoring the need to integrate understandings of climate, weather, and extreme events into energy-sector planning. It’s a tremendous task to transform and tailor high-resolution climate-data(sets) to regionally relevant proxies to efficiently and effectively inform resources-management, infrastructure-planning and resilient investment.

Presentations are welcome that show-case tailoring of climate/weather-data and informatics to support the energy-sector. For example:

  • Choosing subsets of climate models/scenarios (future, near-real time) to inform planning,
  • Innovations in using science in planning and decision-making and understanding risk despite scientific-uncertainty,
  • Development of metrics to measure climate-resilience,
  • Stakeholder engagement enabling actionable climate-informatics development and application,
  • Displaying socio-economic and climate-data to support decision-making.
Index Terms:

1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1918 Decision analysis [INFORMATICS]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]

Primary Convener:  Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  Owen M Doherty, Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA, United States and Amanda Stevens, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Albany, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martine Schmidt-Poolman, California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA, United States
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