A WWA team, Intermountain West Climate Summary dashboard

Eric Gordon, Jeff Lukas, and Tim Bardsley are core staff members in the CIRES Western Water Assessment (WWA) who developed the WWA Intermountain West Climate Summary (IWCS) dashboard, an exceedingly useful tool for scientists, decision makers, and the public to access a large number of climate-related products in a single web site. The IWCS dashboard is at http://wwa.colorado.edu/climate/dashboard.html The WWA is an applied research program within CIRES that addresses societal vulnerabilities related to climate variability and change on all time scales, particularly in the area of water resources. A critical part of the WWA endeavor requires developing, testing, and implementing innovative approaches to the delivery of climate services. Since 2005, the IWCS has served as a test bed for assessing the delivery of climate services, and has helped inform national efforts within NOAA. Decision makers and stakeholders often have difficulty navigating the bewildering array of climate-related products that are available from federal, state, and local resources. The IWCS provides a collation of these products in a simple, compact format.