Description:

Understanding and disseminating information about climate change is the most pressing issue for the earth system science community today. To understand our changing planet, scientists and researchers often rely on observational datasets that are collected, processed, and released on many platforms worldwide. When these datasets are synthesized with the numerical models, products can be generated that are easier to understand and utilize.  Development of these products depends on collaboration between diverse teams of scientists across a wide range of disciplines. Co-development of these data products with stakeholders inputs throughout the process maximizes the usability of these products in decision making environments. The availability of more advanced technical platforms on cyberinfrastructure plays a critical role in the success of such synthesis activities. Collectively, we use the term ‘information systems’ to describe projects that produce actionable information co-developed by collaborations between researchers, stakeholders, data scientists, and software developers. 

In this session, we would like to showcase examples of such information systems and their application from a variety of Earth System science disciplines. We invite contributions describing all aspects of information systems, including their scientific foundation, organization, technical design, and approaches to stakeholder engagement. We also invite contributions describing individual components of existing information systems, or which could be leveraged by future information systems. Lastly, we invite perspectives from both scientists and stakeholders on general strategies for successful production and dissemination of Earth Science information, and how the Earth Science community can improve.