ASCE-NOAA Workshops on Leveraging Earth System Science and Modeling to Inform Civil Engineering Design
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The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric; Administration (NOAA) created a Task Force for Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice; (Task Force) (More information in Appendix A). In fall 2022, the Task Force held two; invitation-only workshops, entitled Leveraging Earth System Science and Modeling to Inform; Civil Engineering Design. Workshop I covered temperature extremes and intense rainfall, and; Workshop II covered straight-line winds and coastal hazards (such as flooding). Participants; were drawn from authoring bodies of key ASCE standards and manuals of practice (MOPs), civil; engineering practitioners familiar with engineering design covered by those guidance documents,; NOAA climate scientists and modelers, and NOAA program managers responsible for shaping; relevant research and service development.; Each workshop was centered on two concurrent breakout discussions focused on understanding; how existing ASCE guidance documents, such as standards or MOPs, make use of related; geophysical data sets and the sensitivity of the engineering applications to uncertainty in climate; data or modeled projections. This was followed by discussion of the potential of climate science; to meet these needs, the readiness of various NOAA data products to meet the needs of; engineering practice covered by these guidance documents, and the potential development of; updated or new data products. Despite the vast scope of the problem and the necessarily limited; time for discussion, workshop participants were able to identify several areas where progress can; be made. While the workshops focused primarily on identifying needs to support the ASCE; standards process, there was a strong call from the practitioner community to develop ASCE-; recognized best practices and approaches for interim use while standards or MOPs are updated.
