1. Climate Prediction Center People, Partnerships, Plans The 29 th Workshop – Madison, WI Jim Laver Jim Laver Oct 20, 2004

2. Climate Prediction Center Senior Managers, and Veteran & New Scientists Kumar, O’Lenic, 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 “Sky” Yang, Carrera, Eichler, Fan, Kim, Seo, M. Chen, Reeves; Thiaw

3. Partnerships NWSNWS – –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)

4. Partnerships NOAANOAA – –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)

5. 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; Int’l Regional Climate Centers) – –International Desks (African Desk, South American,….) – –Pacific (Monthly New Zealand/PR conference calls)

6. 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)

7. 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