NCWCP
NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, Maryland. Credit: University of Maryland
Representatives from the Nation’s six major climate modeling centers will met for the 4th year in a row to work towards developing a common national climate modeling strategy and coordinate activities at the centers. Through annual discussions drawing upon the centers’ complementary strengths, the U.S. Climate Modeling Summit (USCMS) provides a foundation to improve our nation’s modeling and prediction capabilities. Building on outcomes from the 2017 USCMS, day one of this year’s meeting included a workshop on “Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Extremes”. The workshop focused on prioritizing research and development for the modeling centers and promoting interactions among the centers and with the broader community to advance the workshop topical areas, such as hydrological extremes, and coastal, land and human interactions. Day two involved high-level discussions among modeling center representatives as well as sponsoring agency representatives to improve coordination between the groups. This year the meeting also focused on initial progress made at centers for Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. The USCMS is an activity of the USGCRP – Interagency Group for Integrative Modeling (IGIM). For the past year, the NOAA National Weather Service’s Hendrik Tolman has served as USCMS Chair and NOAA Research’s Annarita Mariotti has served as USCMS Coordinator; both have served a leading role on the organizing committee for this meeting.
The 4th USCMS convened April 4 and 5th at the National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park.
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