Agenda: VALUE WG1 workshop on controlled vocabulary

Venue: Pakistan Room in Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy

Time: 09:00 - 18:00 Monday June 2, 09:00 - 12:00 Tuesday June 3, 2014


Objective: Write down a first draft of a glossary for technical terms (controlled vocabulary) for validation methods and related concepts. To be used both in ‘internal’ collaborations, as meta-data for results, documentation, and to promote best quality/practices for climate services.


Expected outcome: a glossary posted on the VALUE internal web site for discussion within the project members. The final goal is to post an external glossary.

 

Motivation: see Labels for climate data and Google docs.


Participants:

Rasmus Benestad

Hideki Kanamaru

 

Other links: ClimateScienceGlossary

NPCC and downscaling metadata


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What is the aim of the glossary?

Do we need one controlled vocabulary, or more?
My suggestion: one for scientific discussion/communication, and one for
communication with end users.

What are requirements for a CV?
-consistent with existing scientific textbook language (where this
itself is consistent).
-Provide translations between inconsistencies and explanations for
inconsistencies (e.g., more than one term for one meaning, or different
meanings of one term)
-being simple but precise
-using jargon only where necessary
-being as close to colloquial language as possible
-precisely explain where it deviates from colloquial language

CV for end users:
-only define terms that are necessary for end users
-big question: what is necessary?

what should we discuss in Rome? which glossary?

basis for our glossary:
IPCC, as far as useful
NCPP
VALUE framework paper
Maraun et al., 2010, review paper
Our book (some chapters are written only; which is mostly in line with
the NCPP)
[...]?

The scientific language should be global, i.e., we should not have a
VALUE only language if possible.

Brainstorm for what terms do we have to define:

scenario
anthropogenic climate change
internal climate variability
forcing

everything in our validation tree

climatology
systematic spatial variability vs. residual spatial dependence
systematic temporal variability
(residual) temporal dependence
we should better not use the word structure, as it is imprecise!
performance measure=metric, but indices are not metrics!
validation indices
climate change indicators/indices
extreme event

more technical:
pairwise vs. distributionwise
MOS vs. PP
what is the precise definition of empirical statistical downscaling?
stochastic vs. deterministic


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Place: 
Pakistan Room in Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy
Date: 
Mon, 2014-06-02 (All day) - Tue, 2014-06-03 (All day)