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Abstract
This paper analyzes findings from semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 31 farmers in the Willamette Valley in which farmers were asked about their needs for climate data and about the usability of a range of outputs from the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) for their soil management practices. Findings indicate that climate and soils data generated from CESM and other Earth system models (ESMs), despite their coarse spatial scale resolutions, can inform farmers' long-term decisions, but that the data would be more usable if the outputs were provided in a format that allowed farmers to choose the variables and thresholds relevant to their particular needs and if ESMs incorporated farmer practices including residue removal, cover cropping, and tillage levels into the model operations so that farmers could better understand the impacts of their decisions. Findings also suggest that although there is a significant gap in the spatial resolution at which these global ESMs generate data and the spatial resolution needed by farmers to make most decisions, farmers are adept at making scalar adjustments to apply coarse resolution data to the specifics of their own farm's microclimate. Thus, our findings suggest that, to support agricultural decision-making, development priorities for ESMs should include developing better representations of agricultural management practices within the models and creating interactive data dashboards or platforms.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Organization of the Summit and This Proceedings -- MAIN STAGE: Introduction from the Partners -- FROM THE SCIENCE SESSIONS: Close to the Tipping Point -- 2 Our Planet -- MAIN STAGE: Our Planet: Its Health, Its People, Its Future -- MAIN STAGE: Updating the Concept of "Think Globally, Act Locally" -- MAIN STAGE: Four Dynamic Dialogues -- Science as a Human Right -- Economics of Inequality -- From Sustainability to Stability -- Technology's Promise -- FROM THE SCIENCE SESSIONS: Scientific Underpinnings -- White Paper on the Anthropocene -- Six Cross-Cutting Capacities of Sustainability Science -- Economics of Biodiversity -- The Role of the Ocean -- Reflections from Journal Editors-in-Chief -- References -- 3 Breakthroughs -- MAIN STAGE: Diverse Voices -- Next Generation -- Island Nations -- MAIN STAGE: A Commitment to Cooperation -- MAIN STAGE: Innovative Solutions -- Avenues for Action -- Giving Power to Solutions -- FROM THE SCIENCE SESSIONS: Science-Supporting Transformations -- Science for Transformative Change -- New Funding Models and Frameworks -- Key Building Blocks for Transformative Change -- FROM THE SCIENCE SESSIONS: Breakthroughs in Technologies and Social Innovation for Resilient Societies and Global Sustainability -- Important Innovations -- Mobilizing Political Will and Trust in Science -- References -- 4 Our Future -- MAIN STAGE: A View to the Future -- European Perspective -- Connecting Science and Engineering -- MAIN STAGE: Lessons from the Pandemic -- MAIN STAGE: Reaching Beyond Science: Spirituality and the Arts -- Paying Attention to "Inner Science" -- Messages within Music -- Greek Tragedy with a Modern Lesson -- SOLUTION SESSIONS -- Transformational Economics: Valuing Our Future.