<html><head><style>body{font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px">Dear Jorgen,</div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px">I agree with your point that the S.P. appears so generic and unspecific that it strikes one as meaningless. Certainly, this first impression is shared by most working scientists I have discussed the matter with, and it was in fact brought up in our discussion of the S.P. (at ACOM) last Friday.</div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px">On the other hand, I don’t know that we need to be paranoid about ulterior motives. I happen to know some of the folks who worked on the S.P. and I am confident that their motives do not run in that direction. </div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px">I think the question that needs to be asked (and thanks for bringing it up) is why the S.P. of a major FFRDC is so redolent of bureaucratese and appears, on the surface at least, to have no science in it. I hope the answer is not “because that is what the funding agencies expect these days”, but it might be.</div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px">Best,</div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Monaco,Arial;font-size:14px">R.</div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On September 13, 2019 at 1:58:27 PM, Jorgen Jensen via Nsa (<a href="mailto:nsa@mailman.ucar.edu">nsa@mailman.ucar.edu</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
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Dear NCAR Director and Committee leads /</p>
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Dear Everette, Rebecca and Dan,</p>
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Thank you for drafting the new NCAR Strategic Plan. I know how much
work it is. Thus I really do appreciate your work.</p>
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I have not previously provided any input to the present strategic
plan. During the winter-spring of this year, I was on an
internal sabbatical, and since then I was out with surgery until
late July.</p>
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<b>I think that an NCAR strategic plan should serve at least 5
purposes:</b></p>
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Acknowledge</p>
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that NCAR is built on fundamental research in many separate
disciplines.</p>
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Acknowledge</p>
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that this fundamental research must continue as a basis for NCAR’s
development.</p>
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Acknowledge</p>
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that the true strength of NCAR is that the whole of NCAR is greater
than the sum of its parts.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Describe clearly the main tasks that the organization is working
on, as well as what new initiatives and priorities are
planned. Do this in coarse detail. Do this
for other scientists, government and community.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Recognize our sponsors and funding organizations, as well as the
tasks and priorities that they want NCAR to do.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Recognize our customers, both current and future, as well as the
tasks that they want NCAR to do. </p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Describe the tasks, that NCAR is working on, in sufficient details
that staff can look at the plan and say “Yes, I belong here. They
recognize that what I do is important”.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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<b>Comments on the current draft strategic plan:</b></p>
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My first impression on reading this draft strategic plan is that
NCAR is either <u>incapable</u>of or <u>unwilling</u>to
articulate in even coarse detail what work the organization should
do in the next 5 years.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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[Strong words, yes, but you asked for comments].</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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If I was looking at the text from outside NCAR, then my reaction
would be something like:</p>
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“This
is a really weak strategic plan for a world-class science
organization.”</p>
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and</p>
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“NCAR
does not know what its priorities are.” </p>
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and</p>
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“Just
give us the money; then we will decide how to spend it.”</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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I believe that NCAR knows very well what its priorities are; there
is plenty of horsepower in the executive, the strategic plan
committee, and through the input that the committee has
collected. Thus the draft strategic plan could easily
have been written with sufficient coarse-grained
detail, - had that been the goal.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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This leads me to ask why NCAR is apparently <u>unwilling</u>to
clearly articulate in coarse details its goals in this strategic
plan.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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And I really struggle with that.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Prior strategic plans have spelled out both what we do, and what
new directions we want to pursue. This draft strategic plan
really only discusses the new directions. </p>
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<span> </span></p>
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And I think that it is an affront to our funding organizations.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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To substantiate why I criticize the plan for not having even
coarse-grained detail, consider that almost all
disciplinary references have been removed. The
word </p>
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“mesoscale”
does not occur in the plan,</p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"greenhouse" occurs
once,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"trace gas" does not
occur,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">“reactive” does not
occur,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"boundary layer" does not
occur,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"aerosol" does not
occur,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"cloud" only occur in conjunction
with "cloud computing" (twice!),</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">“uncertainty” occurs once (for a
science organization?)</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">etc.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Basically, the strategic plan has
been “sanitized” to an extent, that almost all disciplinary science
references to problems are omitted. Yet these, and many
more, are exactly the subjects that NCAR staff works
on. So why not mention them?</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(26,26,26)">
</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(26,26,26)">Section
4.2, first bullet point: Develop the next generation of
observational facilities and continue to work with community
stakeholders to identify new emerging technologies. We will lead
engineering research, design, fabrication, and testing that
advances both science and technology.</span><span style="font-family:"Times Roman";color:black">
</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Without any detail around it, the
above paragraph is so non-specific, as to be almost
meaningless.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">V</span>ery major tasks, that NSF
has tasked NCAR with carrying out, are not mentioned at
all. For instance, NSF has probably invested about
$150-200M in observational facilities, the Lower Atmospheric
Observing Facilities (LAOF). They have funded two large aircraft
with associated instrumentation, radars, lidars, ground-based
networks, masts, and remote sensing profilers. NSF
expects that NCAR continue to keep these state-of-the art, such
that NCAR can collaborate with and support university faculty in
NSF funded field deployments, of which scores of faculty are given
grants every year.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Observational facilities have names (e.g., LAOF and Mauna Loa
Observatory), and these names are known and recognized by NSF, by
our university colleagues and by other agency
collaborators. – So why not call them by name
in the strategic plan?</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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A major proposal, the $70M Airborne Phased Array Radar (APAR)
proposal has just been submitted to NSF. How can a strategic
plan not mention a $70M proposal, or even the serious effort
underlying it?</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(26,26,26)">
</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(26,26,26)">Section
4.2, second bullet point: Develop and enable broad use
of cutting-edge numerical models suitable for a wide variety of
Earth system science endeavours. Central to this, we will implement
a unified modeling strategy, capable of simulating weather,
climate, atmospheric chemistry, and space weather, and engineered
for the exascale regime.</span><span style="font-family:"Times Roman";color:black">
</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Cambria">
But my concern is not just with the observational aspects of the
draft strategic plan. The plan also ignores mention of
the many process oriented modeling efforts carried out within NCAR,
such as Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of the air-sea interface, of
cloud processes, of boundary-layer development,
etc. (Yes, the above paragraph does discuss models in
plural). Do these efforts not deserve to be mentioned
(maybe also by name) in the strategic plan?</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Finally, in my comments on NCAR being unwilling to articulate in
coarse detail the work being currently carried out and
planned: In the central unified modeling strategy, there
is absolutely no details on what the priorities are. For
instance, are the key areas among the following?</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Improving
the numerical core of the unified model to speed it up,</p>
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Parameterization
of physical processes in the grey zone,</p>
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Surface
flux parameterization to high wind-speed regime (30-85 m/s),</p>
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Better
turbulence representation around inversions,</p>
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Stably
stratified boundary layers,</p>
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Getting
the right physical process into marine warm rain formation,</p>
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Getting
ice particle generation based on aerosols as opposed to
temperature,</p>
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Etc.,
etc.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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NCAR should articulate what the most important problems are, in
order to improve the unified model.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Otherwise the strategic plan comes across as:</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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“Just
give us the money; then we will decide how to spend it.”</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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The strategic planning committee and NCAR executive could certainly
have written the draft strategic plan with the coarse-grained
detail as outlined above.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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But it must have been a very conscious decision to omit all the
details and disciplinary problem references.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Why?</p>
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It seems that: NCAR wants a very generic strategic
plan, such that it can make the greatest change in research
direction since its inception, - with a
minimum of external influence.</p>
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<span> </span></p>
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Basically, get the strategic plan externally through the UCAR
members and NSF, and then do dramatic resource allocation changes
internally in an implementation plan.</p>
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For instance, in order to pay for the vision with its huge effort
to societally important model output, something has to give or NCAR
must have identified a substantial untapped source of external
funding.</p>
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Yet the plan does not mention potential future external funding
sources by name; in fact it expressly omits mention the names of
all current external funding organizations (except for two small
references to NSF). We have many other smaller funders,
that are not mentioned.</p>
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It seems to me that this draft strategic plan, on purpose, is
trying “to bite the hands that feed us”. This seems entirely
counter productive.</p>
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I do not know if my assertion is right (passing a non-detailed
strategic plan, followed by internal dramatic resource changes as
part of the implementation plan – out of view of NSF, UCAR members,
and others), but otherwise I cannot understand the writing of a
strategic plan, that omits core responsibilities of NCAR, and that
is so lacking in coarse-grained detail and science.</p>
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With kind regards,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria">
Jorgen Jensen</p>
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SCI III, Leader of RAF Science and Instrumentation Group</p>
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NCAR /
EOL, <a>jbj@ucar.edu</a> , 720-206-6478</p>
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