C.L.I.O. is a Climate Change Support Tool and System for the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) that was developed by NCDC'S Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS) Project Office and is being tested in collaboration with Dr. Jim Tucker (NASA). CLIO, named after the Greek Muse of history, is the result of rapid prototyping, enabling leading scientists and Subject Matter Expert (SME)s across agencies and organizations around the world to objectively and quantitatively evaluate/prioritize climate change impacts and monitoring feasibilties associated with Essential Climate Variable (ECV)s and Climate Data Record (CDR)s.

        CLIO's support system is being designed to empower experts with access and interaction to ISO-Compliant metadata and temporal data from the past, present, and for future planning of products, metadata, datasets, dataset versions, instruments, platforms and networks. CLIO is a tool that fuses adaptive avant-garde technologies with intuitive online interfaces that serve to assist societal leadership and the scientific community in developing standards and methods of assuring the long-term usefulness of archived data sets and Climate Data Record (CDR)s. Navigation within CLIO may be acccomplished via selecting the SITE MAP (upper right of page) or using the above traditional page tabs. The SITE MAP is being designed to interactively display more functionality i.e. where the user is at and what areas are available. Documentation related development within CLIO is available under the Documents Section of this page (below) and tab support details are as follows:

• Home Tab: Returns to the SDS Project Home Page

• ECV's & CDR's Tab: Provides Results of Subject Matter Expert (SME) vetted Climate Change ECV/CDR Impacts with page options (CDR Heritage, ECV Dual (Societal & Scientific) Heritage, ECV Societal Impacts, ECV IPCC Impacts, and SME Input)

• Archive Branch (AB) Tab: Provides access to a Proof-Of-Concept interface for ECV/CDR's and their related Satellite/In Situ platforms, Products, Data Sets (via a time-line GANNT-Interface); Data Access, Data Tools and Controled Vocabularies

The ECV/CDR Dual Heritage has been designed to present objective and quantifiable results of Climate Change related ECV/CDR's for both Scientific, Societal communities and Leadership regarding Essential Climate Variable (ECV) priorities and their impact values for each community, respectively. Conceptually, this Interface is a tool to provide a comprehensive rating of impacts and feasibility of monitoring Climate Change Essential Climate Variable (ECV)s and their Impacts (i.e., quantifiable values, reasons and feasibility) to scientific and societal areas:

• Scientific community impact areas are sortable and have been initially identified to be: Attribution, Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks, Ecosystem Regular Climate, El Nino, Human Interactions and activities, Ozone Recovery, Uncertainty Reduction, Variation Detection, and Warming Potential.

• Societal community impact areas are sortable and have been initially identified to be: Disaster, Health, Energy, Climate, Water, Weather, Ecosystems, Agriculture, Biodiversity and Urban Climate. Currently, new community impact areas are not enabled to be added by SME's automatically. Community values are clustered based upon the pattern of deviation with respect to the averaged Input ECV Prioritization values from Subject Matter Experts (SME's). Clustered user totals reflect user grouped tendencies but may not include unique users.

SME input is vetted before being transferred to the operational database. Upon request through the vetting authority, new community areas can be added without requiring a new software release by the SDS Server Team. Once approved by the vetting authority, the SDS Server Team will add new community impact areas, as required. New community impact area functionality is anticipated to be added in a later version, as required. Currently, Dr. Jim Tucker (NASA) and others, as recommended, constitute vetting authority member(s) and will choose distinguished SME's. Chosen SME's are to be assigned an alias and initial password, thereby allowing access to CLIO's SME Input Interface. Vetting authority determines what SME's will be permitted, as advocate(s) within their respective field(s), to input impact and/or feasibility numerical values. In turn, these Advocate(s) may permit other qualified SME's within their field(s) to provide suppport information for Impact and Feasibility value(s), i.e., e.g., community weighted benefits for monitoring particular climate change ECVs for a respective impact area. SME Input for numerical impact and feasibility values are approved by the vetting authority before being transferred to the operational database and made public. By default, SME input value support information is made public without requiring approval by vetting authority so as to encourage greater recognized community support information. This page reflects Global Earth Observation (GEO) Work Plan 2007-2009 tasks, where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) related ECV Impact Strengths for IPCC and Societal Impact Areas of Concern are rated by Subject Matter Experts.

Files available for download:

Forsythe-Newell, Ted Habermann: Poster for Metadata ISO-compliance (2009)	323	JPG	15 Jan 2009	Poster support for ISO 19115-2 compliance of Metadata currently under work at NOAA's NCDC and NGDC. Emphasis is placed upon ISO-compliant Object Identifier (ISOID)s and dynamic interpretation between different controlled vocabularies and data formats.
Forsythe-Newell: Extended Abstract (AMS, 2009)	1318	PDF	18 Dec 2008	Urban Climate Impact, Variability and Prioritization of ECVs for the American Meteorological Society Conference (AMS, 2009)
Forsythe-Newell: Poster for Extended Abstract (AMS, 2009)	162	JPG	18 Dec 2008	AMS Poster support for extended abstract on "Urban Climate Impact, Variability & Prioritization of EVCs" (2009). Emphasis is on providing an ECV prioritization & consensus building tool (CLIO) for experts to evaluate Impacts to Society and the CCSP and to assist in evaluation of long-term usefullness of ECVs and CDRs.