NOAA Climate Observations and Services Program

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NOAA Climate Observations and Services Program
Dave Goodrich NOAA Climate Observations and
Services Program
March 19, 2002
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NOAA Climate Services
Overview
Vision and Mission Management and NOAA
Roles Evolving Products and Services An Example
the Carbon Cycle Regional Services
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Vision

• Seamless climate services enabling
• BBetter management of energy, agriculture, water,
  etc., through analyses, observations, and
  predictions
• AAssessment of environmental impacts of natural
  and anthropogenically induced changes, and the
  effects of remedial actions

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Mission

• Timely delivery to decision-makers of
• Data and products
• Expert assessments
• Predictions of climate variability and change on
  intra-seasonal to centennial time scales

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Basic Components
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NOAA Climate Services
Management
Advisory Panel
COS Program Office
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NOAA Climate Services
Climate Observations and Services Program Board
Ants Leetmaa (Chair) Geophysical Fluid Dyn.
Lab.Daniel Albritton Aeronomy Lab.Robert
Livezey NWS Climate Services James Laver
Climate Prediction CenterThomas Karl Natl.
Climatic Data CenterArnold Gruber Office of
Research and ApplicationsDavid Goodrich
Climate Obs. and Svcs. Office
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Present Lead Roles Within NOAA
Major Supporting Activities
Product Line
Satellite Obs., Data Stewardship
Climatology, Assessments
NESDIS NWS OAR
Models,Surface Observations
S/I Prediction
Research, Ocean Obs., Models
Dec/Cen Assessments
Not inclusive each line office has some
responsibilities in each of these areas
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Building to the Future Examples of New Products
and Services Building on CCRI

• Climate assessment scenarios exploring options
  for managing greenhouse gases and aerosols
• Regular documentation of carbon sources and
  sinks,
• with particular emphasis on North America
• Regular attribution of recent climate trends
  between
• anthropogenic forcing and natural
  variability
• Regular State of the Atmosphere reports
• Improved local services through enhanced
  interactions
• with RISAs, RCCs, SCs, and private sector

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Product Maps of Carbon Sources and Sinks
Where we were in 1998 3 box world Single
5 year period for map Discrepancy between
atmospheric and inventory methods
Where were going-- near term Continental
scale resolution Seasonal maps Near term
improvements needed Atmospheric transport
models Additional stations in under-sampled
regions and over continents

• Carbon maps of the future
• Fully dynamic, model-data
• fusion products globally
• Local scale (10s of km)
• Real time
• Future improvements needed
• Model-data fusion methods
• Coupling with weather models
• Satellite data/in situ validation

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U.S. Climate Reference Network
Real-time Network Performance Monitoring
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