11 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. Karl COA Program Manager March 22, 2006

22 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate 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.

33 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005 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)

44 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005 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

55 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005 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

66 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005 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)

77 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005 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)

88 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005 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)

99 Observations and Analysis (COA) Program Climate and Global Working Group NOAA Climate Review Report March 29-30, 2005 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