Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
A potentially high-impact study sponsored by NOAA CPO’s Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program titled “Influence of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation on tornado and hail frequency in the United States” was published online in Nature Geoscience on March 19.
Can ENSO forecasts help predict severe thunderstorm activity? Read More »
All 24 papers included in a topical collection on the Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) have now been published in the international journal Climate Dynamics.
Topical Collection on Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) now complete Read More »
The OAR/CPO Modeling, Analysis, and Predictions and Projections (MAPP) program, together with the National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Predictions (NWS/NCEP) Climate Prediction Center (CPC), will hold a workshop to explore advancing sub-seasonal forecasting as a follow-on to the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME), a state-of-the-art prediction system.
NOAA’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program awarded $1.8 million to support 10 new multi-year projects to help improve NOAA’s climate predictions from two weeks to a year in advance, including extreme conditions. These projects will contribute to the NOAA Climate Test Bed, aimed at accelerating research-based advances in climate prediction and transitioning new tools and techniques to NOAA’s operational services. MAPP is a part of the Climate Program Office, situated within NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
New NOAA research to improve prediction systems Read More »
This NOAA Drought Task Force/NIDIS report details the results of an extensive multi-research-group analysis of the causes and predictability of the drought. The report finds that the exceedingly warm and dry conditions that caused the drought were due to a high pressure ridge off the west coast of the United States influenced heavily by anomalous sea surface temperatures. These influences are attributed to natural variability.
Researchers offer new insights into predicting future droughts in California Read More »
A topical collection of Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) papers was co-organized by NOAA’s Climate Program Office and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and is now available for viewing.
Topical collection of Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) papers Read More »
CarbonTracker methane, an off-shoot of NOAA’s highly successful CarbonTracker, which was partially funded by CPO’s AC4 program, has earned peer-reviewed status with a recent paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Research supported by CPO’s Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program was published into the May edition of Environmental Research Letters.
Research partially funded by CPO’s MAPP program has been published in the June issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
CMIP5 Climate Model Analyses: Climate Extremes in the United States Read More »
Research funded by CPO’s Modeling, Analysis, prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program will be published in the June 1 issue of the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate.
ENSO asymmetry in CMIP5 models Read More »