A newly released Special Report details the activities, projects, and outcomes from the 2016-2019 MAPP Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Task Force. The OAR Climate Program Office’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) Program organized the Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Task Force to advance NOAA’s and the Nation’s capability to model and predict sources of S2S predictability. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to help close the gap in prediction skill and products between traditional weather and seasonal lead times. The core membership of the Task Force is comprised of MAPP-supported scientists from universities, research laboratories, and NOAA centers and laboratories funded through the fiscal year 2016 MAPP–National Weather Service (NWS) Science and Technology Integration (STI) grant competition “Research to Advance Prediction of Subseasonal to Seasonal Phenomena”. The report includes key themes from research projects, key questions driving the S2S Task Force efforts, and project summaries. The S2S Task Force Special Report can be found on the Task Force webpage or at this link. ———————————————————————————————– About MAPP The Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program is a competitive research program in NOAA Research’s Climate Program Office. MAPP’s mission is to enhance the Nation’s and NOAA’s capability to understand, predict, and project variability and long-term changes in Earth’s system and mitigate human and economic impacts. To achieve its mission, MAPP supports foundational research, transition of research to applications, and engagement across other parts of NOAA, among partner agencies, and with the external research community. MAPP plays a crucial role in enabling national preparedness for extreme events like drought and longer-term climate changes. For more information, please visit www.cpo.noaa.gov/MAPP.
Outcomes of the MAPP S2S Prediction Task Force
