Using climate projections to assess climate change risks remains challenging, in part due to the large associated uncertainties, such as those for extreme events.

The workshop sought to simulate the state drought monitoring and response process, identify gaps in existing processes and prioritize follow-up actions, and increase awareness of participants’ roles and responsibilities for drought response and planning within their agencies and organizations.

The program aims to strengthen for-profit climate service providers’ competencies for using and building upon the climate data, information, services, and strategies that have been developed primarily by the public and non-profit sectors.

Better understanding of this ozone sink is essential for improved modeling and prediction of air pollution, ecosystem health, and climate.

The partnership has resulted in a number of high quality paleo datasets, without which significant advancements over the last 5 years in understanding societally-relevant risks such as drought and temperature changes in a long-term context would not have been possible.