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US Climate Change Science Program Updated: 20th October, 2008

Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations

Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.1
 

 

 

Lead Agency: DOE

Climate Change Science Program Working Groups:

  • Human Contributions
  • Decision Support
  • Climate Variability and Change
  • Modeling

Status & Details

Estimated publication date for final report: COMPLETED 7/31/2008 

Schedule
Note: This schedule lists in chronological order the public postings related to this report. We provide exact dates for past postings; and our best estimate for the next posting (highlighted in red). Dates for subsequent releases (i.e. beyond the next posting) are left blank.
Start of 30-day Public Review of Draft Prospectus 2/02/2005 
Final Prospectus Posted 2/03/2006 
Start of 45-day Public Review of Draft Report 5/22/2007 
Third Draft Report Posted 5/15/2008 
Final Report Posted COMPLETED 7/31/2008 
NEXT Step >>COMPLETED
*** est scheduled dates, subject to revision
In reverse chronological order. 

31 July, 2008. Final Report posted online. See also press release (dtd 31 July 2008) and brochure from the Department of Energy. (links posted 31 July 2008)

15 May, 2008. Final (third) review draft [PDF] (dtd 15 May 2008) is posted. Also posted:

January 11, 2008: Federal Register notice announces a teleconference meeting of the Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee on January 28, 2008. (link posted 22 January 2008).

24 October 2007. Federal Register notice announces postponement of teleconference meeting of the Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee originally scheduled for 29 October 2007.

17 October 2007: Federal Register notice announces teleconference meeting of the Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee on 29 October 2007. Note: the meeting subsequently was postponed, as per Federal Register notice of 24 October 2007. 

8 August 2007: Meeting of the Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee. See Federal Register notice of 18 July 2007.

18 July 2007: Notice of public meeting.  Published in the Federal Register. Announces meeting of the Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee on 8 August 2007.

22 May 2007: Public review draft  released along with invitation for public review and comment.  Comments on the report will be accepted through July 6 2007. See also the Federal Register notice published on 22 May 2007.

22 May 2007: Comments of peer reviewers on the first draft of Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.1.

February 7, 2007: First draft (for peer reviewers) [PDF]

November 15, 2006: Minutes [PDF] and Agenda and available presentations of the Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC).

August 17-18, 2006: Minutes [PDF] and Presentations of the Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC).

August 3, 2006: Synthesis and Assessment Report 3.1 Draft Outline. [PDF]

31 July 2006. Federal Register notice announces meeting of Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC), to be held on 17-18 August 2006. 

6 February 2006. Public review comments on draft prospectus.

31 January 2006.  Final Prospectus. Also available as PDF file.

28 June 2005.  Peer Review Plan. [MS Word]  Document from the Department of Energy.

2 February - 7 March 2005: Draft prospectus open for review & comment. [comment period closed on 7 March 2005]

2 February 2005: Draft prospectus released along with invitation for public review and comment.

Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee (CPDAC)

The Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee is drafting Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.1 at the request of the Department of Energy in accordance with the interagency Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Guidelines for Producing the CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products.  The CPDAC will agree upon the contents of the products before advising the Department of Energy (DOE) to adopt the language.   The DOE Office of Science will comply with the OMB Peer Review Bulletin for peer review of the CPDAC products. The peer review plan for the report [MS Word] is online. Implications of the Information Quality Act and OMB Peer Review Bulletin on the Synthesis and Assessment Reports may be found at S&A Products_IQA_Guidelines .

The Designated Federal Officer is Dr. Anjuli Bamzai of the Climate Change Research Division, Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

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