Introduction to Change Initiative

In addition, the SSM estimations by using the two methods are in good correlation with the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) soil moisture product.

Comparing the simulated results with the in-situ dataset of the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) and the satellite-based soil moisture product of the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI) indicated that the CAS-LSM reasonably reproduced the distribution of soil moisture, and well matched the temporal changes.

In this work, the SM2RAIN-CCI (SM2RAIN-ASCAT) rainfall data obtained from the inversion of the microwave-based satellite soil moisture (SM) observations derived from the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) (from the Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) soil moisture data) were evaluated against in situ rainfall observations under different bioclimatic conditions in Brazil.

Satellite soil moisture products obtained from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS), the METOP-A/B Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2), Climate Change Initiative (CCI) and a global land surface model Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) are compared with the soil moisture values obtained from CRNP stations.

We present results of contemporary coastal sea level changes along the coasts of Western Africa, obtained from a dedicated reprocessing of satellite altimetry data done in the context of the ESA ‘Climate Change Initiative’ sea level project.

The experimental Sea Level Climate Change Initiative (SLCCI) data set (high resolution along track) coastal sea level product (developed within Climate Change Initiative (CCI project) that has been also assessed in the Gulf of Trieste show that the trends calculated with the gridded and along track datasets exhibit some differences, probably due to the different methodologies used in the generation of the products.

Finally, we assimilate three different Level-2 satellite derived soil moisture products from the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI), SMAP and SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) using the EnOI, and then compare the relative performance of the three resulting analyses against in situ soil moisture observations.

Finally, we assimilate three different Level-2 satellite derived soil moisture products from ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI), SMAP and SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) using the EnOI, and then compare the relative performance of the three resulting analyses against in-situ soil moisture observations.

In this study, five SM products, including one microwave remote sensing product – the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) – and four reanalysis data sets – European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis – Interim (ERA-Interim), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), the 20th Century Reanalysis Project from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the ECMWF Reanalysis 5 (ERA5) – are systematically evaluated using in situ measurements during 1981–2013 in four climate regions at different timescales over the Chinese mainland.

In this study, five SM products, including one microwave remote sensing product – the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) – and four reanalysis data sets – European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis – Interim (ERA-Interim), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), the 20th Century Reanalysis Project from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the ECMWF Reanalysis 5 (ERA5) – are systematically evaluated using in situ measurements during 1981–2013 in four climate regions at different timescales over the Chinese mainland.

This study assessed three soil moisture data sets: a surface satellite soil moisture data set from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission operating since 2010; a blended surface satellite soil moisture data set from the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI) that has a long history and a surface and root zone soil moisture data set from the Canadian Meteorology Centre (CMC)’s Regional Deterministic Prediction System (RDPS).

The objective of this paper is to assess the quality of the gridded altimetric sea level product DT18 as well as altimetry data from the Sea Level Climate Change Initiative in the Norwegian Sea.

RESULTS The Organizational Readiness Tool (ORT) showed adequate psychometric properties and specificity in these eight domains: 1) Current safety/health/well-being programs 2) Current organizational approaches to safety/health/well-being; 3) Resources available for safety/health/well-being; 4) Resources and readiness for change initiatives to improve safety/health/well-being; 5) Resources and readiness for use of teams in programmatic initiatives; 6) Teamwork; 7) Resources and readiness for employee participation; and 8) Management communication about safety/health/well-being Acceptable ranges of internal consistency statistics for the domain subscales were observed.

This paper draws from recent global remote sensing data on land use from ESA Climate Change Initiative (ESA/CCI) from 1992 and 2015.

5\pm 5^{\circ}$) focusing in 2016 on the three main land cover types of the Iberian Peninsula according to the Climate Change Initiative (agricultural, forest and grassland).

Guided by a theoretical stakeholder management model, this research examines the strategies university leaders employ to manage this salient and sometimes adversarial group with respect to a major organizational change initiative.

Researchers and practitioners around the world indicated that due to the uncertainty and complexity associated with organizational change, an employee feels fear and cynicism to involve in the organizational change process which causes failure in the majority of the organizational change initiatives.

Recommendations are made for future research directions and social change initiatives on talent management leadership roles within organizations to better support sustainability goal agendas.

Collectively, the chapter demonstrates the role of socially engaged spirituality among Muslims in promoting in-group cohesiveness and positive intergroup relationships that benefits large and small social change initiatives.

This study aims to understand the critical success factors of the alcohol culture change initiatives that were developed by the university and implemented as part of a broader set of institutional practices.

E) Session method developed as a culture change initiative by My Home L.

An acknowledgement of which is a growing interest among policy practitioners in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour change initiatives.

Finally, we discuss avenues for future product development, research, and design for behaviour change initiatives.

This information will equip hospitals and clinicians with knowledge to better identify patient outcomes related to SSI post discharge from hospital and inform decision making related to preventative strategies, providing the necessary momentum to introduce practice change initiatives aimed at reducing surgical site infection rates.

The success of any practice change initiative is dependent upon a highly effective team.

Thus, program developers may want to consider individual participant readiness to change and its impact on consumer satisfaction when designing, implementing, and evaluating behavior change initiatives.

Lagvankar’s team to design and implement the behavior change initiative.

Design/methodology/approachIt is demonstrated through the case study how five systems thinking tools – Current Reality Tree (CRT), Evaporating Cloud (EC), Future Reality Tree (FRT), Negative Branch Reservation (NBR) and Prerequisite Tree (PRT) – can be applied in overcoming different layers of resistance and for getting the necessary agreement from the stakeholders for a successful change initiative.

This knowledge can be used to increase the probability of successful change initiatives.

Background In the National Health Service (NHS) in England, traditional approaches to evidencing impact and value have an important role to play but are unlikely to demonstrate the full value of national quality improvement programmes and large-scale change initiatives in health and care.

This large-scale change initiative enabled a fundamental shift in the way data is used, digital health tools are leveraged, and how clinicians collaborate, contributing to the advancement of integrated care in Ontario.

Organizational stagnation occurs in every system where basic cultural change slows down, and the current situation becomes the usual option until conscious and consistent cultural change initiatives are implemented.

ABSTRACT Schwartz Rounds are a cultural change initiative for interdisciplinary staff to reflect on their work to preserve the human connection.

Organisational renewal and change often include the experience of a dichotomy between talk and action, leading to increasing skepticism about organisational change initiatives.

The interviewees did not elaborate on any failed IT-organisational change initiatives, possibly because such information was highly sensitive, and only alluded to experiencing unintended negative consequences of changes.

One population, however, often remains the recipient of services as opposed to partners or leaders in community change initiatives: youth.

The strategic compatibility assessment (SCA) was designed to identify inter-organizational collaborative capacities within and across sectors as a means to motivate collaborative behaviors that are essential to community change initiatives that advance the collective impact.

Capacity building of the primary health centres to improve access to eye care and community behavioural change initiatives against TEM use should be encouraged.

Capacity building of the primary health centres to improve access to eye care and community behavioural change initiatives against TEM use should be encouraged.

Lipp3, Kyle 4 Bibby1,2* 5 6 1 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 7 156 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 8 2 Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, 721 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 9 46556 10 3 Department of Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, 150 East Green Street, 11 Athens, GA 30602 12 13 *kbibby@nd.

Lastly, more work should be done to complement SNAP-Ed direct education with policy, systems, and environmental change initiatives.

The focus of this chapter is to highlight two different transformational change initiatives in public schools that rely on student leadership to be effective.

From this synthesis, we present seven criteria for transformational change that provide direction for framing and implementing transformational change initiatives.

Under immense political pressure to introduce quick, visible and effective changes in the quality of medicine available in government facilities, the P&SH department initiated multiple change initiatives to improve its medicine procurement process.

Participants were 243 employees of a company that, in order to introduce a new organizational vision, was implementing multiple change initiatives.

This chapter will first consider the dark sides of change—that is, negative aspects, in particular change initiatives that are undertaken for ethically questionable reasons, using ethically questionable means, or resulting in deleterious consequences.

Through examining a particular change initiative in depth, the thesis shows both how individuals leverage the different forms of power-in-use, but also use apparently everyday practices to build shared understanding, legitimacy and commitment – and through this achieve sufficient compatibility of understanding and actions, a transient intersubjective alignment, to allow coordination.

This finding seeks to offer future research to be extended from established institutions from other developed countries as a comparison when planning and implementing change initiatives at the institutional level.

These criteria were important to ensure the organization had the necessary foundation for implementing change initiatives such as lean process improvements.

The AHYR is a province-wide practice and policy change initiative in Alberta, Canada, that aims to prevent intimate partner violence by promoting service provider and systems capacity to support healthy relationships in adolescence and beyond.

We found that the existence, quality and credibility, rather than the content of the guidelines, are the keys to health policy change initiatives in different local contexts.

In 2020, a partnership was formed between the City, the University of Geneva, and a community energy association to explore the possibility of co-designing a city-wide change initiative, focused on reducing flights through voluntary measures.

Engaging students as partners in curriculum design and university-wide change initiatives is a growing trend that allows the sharing of different kinds of expertise, professional development for staff and students, and the development of critical thinking and analysis skills for all involved.

An action learning set was established with a group of clinical nurses, facilitating practitioner-led change initiatives which strengthened nursing surveillance and workplace learning.

ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to explore the micropolitics of middle managers in influencing the development and outcome of a centre-led change initiative.

Study Focus This study proposed a framework to improve the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Land Cover (ESA CCI LC) products through the integration with the Annual Oil Palm Dataset (AOPD).

To this purpose, we first intercompare the distribution and evolution (2001–2016) of tree coverage from three global satellite-based datasets, MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), ESA Climate Change Initiative Land Cover (ESA CCI-LC), and the Global Forest Watch (GFW), and from national inventories.

Three different soil moisture products from the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Soil Measure (ESA CCI SM v04.

In this study, an assessment has been carried out between the latest version of the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative soil moisture product and the landslide events in a northern Italian region in the 14-year period 2002–2015.

The uncertainty of OLCI-PFT v2 TChl-a product is in general much lower than that of the TChl-a product generated in the frame of the ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative project (OC-CCI).

We validated our AOPs by quantitatively comparing surface-weighted Kd from tags to the multi-sensor Kd(490) product from the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative project (OC-CCI) and qualitatively evaluating whether tag Kd was consistent with patterns of subsurface chlorophyll-a concentrations predicted by a coupled regional physical-biological model (Bering10K-BESTNPZ).

Для этих же станций из баз данных Climate Change Initiative Ocean Colour (CCI OC) и Ocean Productivity использованы спутниковые данные концентрации хлорофилла «а», коэффициента диффузного ослабления света на длине волны 490 нм, первичной продукции (ПП) и фотосинтетически активной солнечной радиации.

Satellite data on Сhl a concentration, diffuse attenuation coefficient at a wavelength of 490 nm, primary production (PP), and Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) available from the Climate Change Initiative Ocean Colour (CCI-OC) and Ocean Productivity databases were also used for the same stations.

This study proposes the application of a spatial gap-filling method using an artificial neural network (ANN) to reconstruct missing records of daily surface SM from the Climate Change Initiative program of the European Space Agency (ESA CCI) in the growing seasons of 1982–2015 across China.

Based on the microwave remote sensing soil moisture data released by the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative program (ESA CCI SM), flash droughts were identified by focusing on the attenuation rate of weekly soil moisture percentile.

1 (MCD45) product, and the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative Fire product version 5.

1 (MCD45) product, and the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative Fire product version 5.