@InProceedings{HewitsonSolAlvTakPry:2022:CrRePl,
               author = "Hewitson, Bruce and Solman, Silvina A. and Alves, Lincoln Muniz 
                         and Takabyabu, Izuro and Pryor, Sara C. C.",
          affiliation = "{University of Cape Town} and {Universidad de Buenos Aires} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Meteorological Research Institute} and {Cornell University}",
                title = "Crowdsourced research plan for regional climate information for 
                         society",
                 year = "2022",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
            publisher = "AGU",
             abstract = "This presentation introduces the outcomes of a globally 
                         crowdsourced science plan for regional information for society. 
                         Arguably the leading challenges in supporting society's response 
                         to managing climate risks are the barriers and inadequacies in the 
                         construction, communication, and adoption of context relevant and 
                         scale appropriate regional climate information. In turn this is 
                         predicated on robust and targeted underlying climate research to 
                         advance understanding of the physical climate system and its 
                         natural and human forcing. The web of links and dependencies 
                         between all actors involved, from core scientists through to 
                         decision makers in society, remains constrained by inadequacies of 
                         both knowledge and process in addressing these issues. The 
                         Regional Information for Society (RIfS) is a new core project of 
                         the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) focused on facilitating 
                         research for the provision of actionable information for societys 
                         response to climate variability and change. RIfS engaged the 
                         relevant communities to crowd source research priorities for 
                         advancing the development and adoption of regional climate 
                         information in society. Drawing on participants from all 
                         continents, and across disciplines that included climate modeling, 
                         downscaling, information construction, climate services, social 
                         sciences, and even ethics and philosophy, the participants engaged 
                         in many virtual meetings to distill the priority knowledge 
                         frontiers at regional scales. The outcomes were then integrated 
                         into a consolidated science plan. We present the RIfS science 
                         plan, its overarching foci, the major research objectives, and the 
                         associated science questions. These are structured in 
                         complementary clusters of foci which necessarily overlap and draw 
                         on the science and expertise of the others. The clusters span 
                         research foci from regional climate understanding through to 
                         stakeholder engagement. In addition, the science plan considers 
                         relevant actions to address these, and the needed collaborations 
                         and developments to gain traction on these leading issues. We 
                         invite the community to engage with the WCRP RIfS in collaboration 
                         and partnerships to address these priorities in service of 
                         societies regional information needs.",
  conference-location = "Chicago, IL",
      conference-year = "12-16 Dec. 2022",
        urlaccessdate = "05 jun. 2024"
}