Accelerating Earth Science to Action

Abstract Human activities have resulted in significant changes to our planet Earth. To ensure the planet's health and sustainability, it is imperative to put Earth science into action as rapidly and accurately as possible. However, many obstacles exist that hinder translating Earth science to action. In particular, the lack of data product assessment standards and community-based services to facilitate assessment activities impedes the development, calibration, validation, applications, and benchmarking of Earth data products. New solutions need to be developed to lower these barriers. In this article, we propose an open and collaborative community platform for rapid data product assessments (e.g., precipitation products from satellite-based algorithms or numerical models). The proposed platform would leverage community efforts to collect and share observations and algorithms for producing standardized and comparable assessment results. The aim is to streamline data product assessments, shorten the Earth data product development cycle, and build data trust to support Earth science to action.