11 NOAA Mission Goal: Climate Observations and Analysis (COA) Program response to Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30,

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NOAA Mission Goal: Climate

Observations and Analysis (COA) Program

response to

Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report

March 29-30, 2005

Thomas R. KarlCOA Program Manager

March 22, 2006

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Observations and Analysis (COA) ProgramClimate and Global Working Group

NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005

• Greater Interaction Across NOAA and Other Agencies US GEO Task Groups

Led development of National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) near-term opportunity plan (Available April 2006)

Led development of Architecture and Data Management Plan (Available April 2006)

Led development of the Sea Level and Coastal Erosion near-term opportunity plan (Available April 2006)

Co-Chair NIDIS and Architecture and Data Management WG COA Team members actively participate USGEO WGs.

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• Greater Interaction Across NOAA and Other Agencies Membership on NOAA’s Observing System Council (NOSC)

Co-Chair NOAA’s Data Management Committee of the NOSC Draft Report on NOAA Data Standards CLASS White Paper (defines role of CLASS w.r.t. Corporate

NOAA) Developing GEO Integrated Data Environment (GEO-IDE) Plan Report to Congress on NOAA’s Data Management National Research Council Committee --- Principles and

Guidelines on Preservation and Access to NOAA’s Data (CRC)

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• Greater Interaction Across NOAA and Other Agencies Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction --- Drought Lead US Army Corps of Engineers --- Coastal Erosion and Inundation

Workshops and Reports Climate Change Science Program

Co-Chair with NASA Observations Working Group CCSP Products 1.1 & 3.3

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• Greater Interaction Across NOAA and Other Agencies Sharing of data sets, techniques, and approaches with the Eumetsat

Climate Satellite Application Facility Worked with NASA DAAC polar science and land surface user working

groups on NOAA’s Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS) Project and trial variables for running through maturity model

Steering committee member for The Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal (GO-ESSP)

Received follow-up NRC report on the implementation plan for NOAA’s SDS Project

Briefed NRC Decadal study on NOAA’s SDS Project

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• Advocate and focus attention on both Retrospective data and Prospective new observations NOAA/NASA Joint Working Group TOR approved and experts meeting

planned in April Participating in NPOESS re-scoping GOES R requirements formulation and data management GCOS (budget severely curtailed) Reference Networks (USCRN, USHCN-M, AK CRN, SEBN, future -

Reference Radiosonde) IOOS (Blue water)

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• Advocate and focus attention on both Retrospective data and Prospective new observations Co-lead planning for a Global Space-based Intercalibration System as part

of CGMS and GEOSS Co-chair of CCSP Observations Working Group and the Observations

Working Group for Data and Information Systems planning future climate observing systems

Identified potential NASA observing system contributions to an integrated climate data record program (tiered system)

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• Linking Remote Sensing and In-situ Measurements SST buoy need index produced operationally and NOAA Research uses as

a basis for deploying drifting buoys NOAA-NIST calibration and validation (Cal/Val) and IV&V project

organized by M. Goldberg (NESDIS STAR) with J. Jensen COA input GEWEX Landflux and Seaflux projects supported with NCDC satellite

and In-situ data sets Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI)

Originated from land-cover/land use NASA program (joint steering committee meeting IGBP/WCRP strong support)

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• Linking Remote Sensing and In-situ Measurements SST pathfinder data set using AMSR-E and marine surface based

observations Radar and in-situ climatologies Numerous inter-comparison studies Reanalysis

Organized Reanalysis Workshop on the development of improved observational data sets for reanalysis: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Documents

11 NOAA Mission Goal: Climate Observations and Analysis (COA) Program response to Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30,