The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Teams in Systems Science and Modelling adopted to deliver a defined piece of work, each with a workplan, a supervisor and a clear end. A working group has no public authority beyond its workplan.
A working group of Systems Science and Modelling is a team adopted to deliver one defined piece of work in the methods and modelling field, with terms of reference, a workplan, a supervisor and an end date. Candidate subjects come from the platform's topics, such as coupled systems modelling. A working group holds no authority beyond its workplan, and its outputs are reviewed before publication.
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For working groups, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and true-colour imagery with relief in 3D and true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on North America; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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A working group could set the documentation a coupled model must meet before policy use, serving government analysis units. It would draw on uncertainty quantification and the validation topic. Domain modellers from the platforms whose models are coupled would review the standard before adoption.
| Question | Possible deliverable | Disciplines |
|---|---|---|
| What documentation should a coupled model meet before policy use? | A documentation standard | Modelling, statistics |
Write to contact@therisk.global. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Working group | A team adopted to deliver a defined piece of work under terms of reference, with a workplan, a supervisor and an end date; it has no public authority beyond its workplan. |
| Terms of reference | The document that defines an assignment's objectives, scope, deliverables, counterpart, acceptance criteria and reserved decisions. |
| Work breakdown structure | A hierarchical breakdown of a project's scope into manageable work packages. |
| Model genealogy | The shared ancestry of models through common code and components. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.