Session 4 Environmental Data and Information Exchange for Resilience

Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair:
Annette Hollingshead, Global Science and Technology, Inc., Asheville, NC

A changing climate on our planet implies a new strategic landscape, one that relies on a global and interdisciplinary network with open team of teams to identify risks and seize the ever-changing opportunities. Experts around the world are recognizing the importance of partnerships, collaborations, and engagement to enable exchange of expertise to advance resilience efforts. New frameworks have been identified, built on teamwork, leadership, and interdisciplinary collaborations that involve scientific communities with business and industry leaders, policy makers with commissioners, and thought leaders with practitioners.

To build the global case for resilience research, engineering, and investment, there is a need to share expertise and stories from the global enterprise on uses and applications of environmental information for decision-making. This session presents a global network of providers of data, solution providers, organizations, and industry experts who will share their stories on the use of environmental data, needs and requirements, assessment of climate impacts, and examples of innovative climate solutions to foster advancement in adaptation and resilience.

Papers:
1:30 PM
4.1
The Role of the Copernicus Climate Change Service in Supporting Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change
Carlo Buontempo, ECMWF, Shinfield Park, UK; and D. Dee, S. Almond, C. Bergeron, A. Brookshaw, F. Vamborg, and J. N. Thépaut
1:45 PM
4.2
The Value of Environmental Data from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
Michael Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and A. Hollingshead, N. Jones, J. Dissen, A. Rycerz, T. G. Houston, and K. V. Matthews
2:00 PM
4.3
The U.S.–India Partnership for Climate Resilience
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and J. Dissen, K. E. Kunkel, and K. Hayhoe
2:15 PM
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