SARP: What's New
FY10 FFO
FY10 SARP Information Sheet
NOAA's Climate Program has recently established a Regional Decision
Support (RDS) effort to accelerate the Program's interaction with
users of climate information and forecasts at multiple spatial and geographical
scales. The RDS portfolio helps NOAA identify and serve the nation's
needs for climate information to support decision making through an integrated
program of: 1) research and assessment related to impacts and decision
making needs; 2) transition of research to operations; and 3) operational
production and delivery of local and regional climate services that can
be utilized to enhance adaptive management options. NOAA's RDS
activities include efforts managed by the research and operational entities
of the
agency, and involve productive partnerships with other agencies, universities
and stakeholders. In support of the research component of the RDS effort,
the newly established NOAA Sector Applications Research Program (SARP)
will identify and promote research and application priorities that foster
improved decision support for fundamental climate-related issues in key
socio-economic sectors. The SARP effort, which has its roots in the
Human Dimensions of Global
Change Research (HD); the
Environment, Science and
Development (ESD); and the
Climate Variability and
Human Health (CVHH) programs, is complementary to
NOAA's
other substantial investment in decision support research: the Regional
Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program. Together, the two
efforts seek to provide effective geographical and topical coverage of
climate-related issues in a decision-making context.
Program Goals
SARP is designed to systematically build an interdisciplinary and expressly
applicable knowledge base and mechanism for the creation, dissemination
and exchange of climate-related research findings critical for understanding
and addressing resource management challenges in vital social and economic
sectors (e.g., coastal, water resources, agriculture, health, etc.). The
overarching goals of SARP include:
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The provision of new and/or synthesized science-based knowledge that
results in the identification and reduction of vulnerability to climate
variability and change in key socio-economic sectors;
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The enhanced and increasingly sophisticated use of climate information,
including forecasts, in decision making;
- The development of a research and operations agenda that increasingly
meets the need of the Nation and NOAA through an understanding by scientists
and science managers of stakeholder requirements.