Climate Prediction Center People, Partnerships, Plans

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Climate Prediction Center People, Partnerships,
Plans

• The 29th Workshop Madison, WI
• Jim Laver
• Oct 20, 2004

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Climate Prediction Center

• Senior Managers, and Veteran New Scientists
• Kumar, OLenic, Kousky, Higgins, van den Dool,
  Miller
• Halpert, Janowiak, Mo, Schemm, Le Comte, Miskus,
• W. Chen, Bell, Chelliah, Long, (Song) Yang,
  Ebisuzaki,
• Xie, Xue, Peng, Shi, Wang, Pelman, Gottschalk
• Contract/UCAR
• Sky Yang, Carrera, Eichler, Fan, Kim, Seo,
• M. Chen, Reeves Thiaw

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Partnerships

• NWS
• Regions, WFOs, RFCs (e.g., drought, product
  dissemination/interpretation, NAME project )
• Climate Services Division (outreach user
  feedback identifying user needs education)
• EMC (dynamical seasonal predictions week-2
  outlooks)
• TPC (Hurricane Season Outlooks)
• HPC (International Desks, WX/CX
  connection/hazards, HydroMet Testbed)
• OPC and SPC (Hazards Assessments)

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Partnerships

• NOAA
• CDC (seasonal outlooks week-2 outlooks climate
  monitoring ENSO outlooks climate variability
  research climate attribution and Reanalysis.
  MOU)
• GFDL (global ocean models ocean data
  assimilation climate attribution) Ants leads
  Predictions Projections
• NCDC (climate monitoring drought monitoring and
  outlooks annual climate summaries MOU)
• OGP (applied research support ARCs)
• AOML (Seasonal Hurricane Outlooks)

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Partnerships

• University International
• IRI (dynamical forecasts/tools Advisory Board)
• U MD, U AZ, Scripps others
• Bi-lateral agreements (China, Korea, Vietnam)
• Canada Mexico (North American Drought Monitor
  North American Monsoon Experiment)
• WMO (ENSO outlooks Intl Regional Climate
  Centers)
• International Desks (African Desk, South
  American,.)
• Pacific (Monthly New Zealand/PR conference calls)

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Partnerships

• Inter-agency
• USDA (drought monitoring and outlooks global
  crop monitoring related Wx/Cx support Crop
  Bulletin)
• NASA/GMAO (seasonal and intraseasonal outlooks -
  modeling ozone monitoring, Reanalysis)
• EPA (ultraviolet monitoring and forecasts)
• DoD (ultraviolet monitoring)
• FEMA (seasonal and extended-range forecasts)
• USAID (humanitarian support climate monitoring)
• DoE (heating/cooling degree days)

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Plans/Emphases

• Continue hiring top federal contract staff
  future leaders
• Continue and expand partnerships
• Climate Test Bed (about 25 of fed/contract staff
  involved)
• The new Climate Forecast System (CFS)
  push/compare
• Supercomputing power for development
  operations
• Next Reanalysis Ongoing Analysis of the Climate
  System
• NAME reap the research and applications
  benefits
• Can we begin to fill prediction gaps Week 3, 4
• International humanitarian support

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