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Climate Service Partnership ActivitiesAt NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

Tim OwenClimate Prediction Applications Science WorkshopTallahassee, Florida9-11 March 2004

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What are Climate Services?

Climate Services: “The timely production and delivery of useful climate data, information, and knowledge to decision makers.”

- Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 1999

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NCDC’s Mission:

Protecting the Past, Revealing the FutureProtecting the Past, Revealing the Future

Data Management of the Nation's resource of global climatological in-situ and remotely sensed data and information to promote global environmental stewardship.

Assessment of the climate through monitoring and product development.

Partnership with the climate community to support efforts to predict variability and change in the Earth's environment.

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Data ManagementNCDC is the custodian of weather records, and is responsible for archival, access, and stewardship of climatological data and information.

Scientific Stewardship

Diligence TodayUnderstanding

Tomorrow

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AssessmentNCDC provides climate perspectives through its monitoring and product development activities.

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PartnershipNCDC has a responsibility to leverage with key partners to maximize efficiency in climate services activities.

Observations

Products & Services

Assessments & Research

Requirements

Data & Information

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NCDC Resources for Climate Prediction

Historical Data AccessModel/Reference Data AccessClimate PerspectivesClimate Reference NetworkHealth of the NetworkPartnership Activities

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Historical Data Access Climate Database Modernization Program

Imaged and Digitized daily and hourly data, extending access to periods before 1948.

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Model/Reference Data Access

CLASS: The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) is an electronic library of environmental satellite data. It is an operational component of NOAA's Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution (OSDPD) and NOAA's NCDC.

NOMADS: The NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) is a distributed data services pilot for format independent access to archived transient model simulations, NWP input and output, ensembles, and reference quality observations and datasets.

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Model/Reference Data Access

Monthly SST model data product available through NOMADS.

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Climate PerspectivesNAO spatial pattern from the analysis from 1910-1997 for the Northern Hemisphere winter.

Standardized Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)

Percent of Conterminous U.S. Wet, 1900-2003

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Climate Reference Network

(4000 stations used in normals)

225 proposed CRN sites

Deployed network will service as anchor for other networks, contributing to reduced biases from national to regional scale.

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Health of the Network

Web-based reports of data completeness, data validity, data quality and receipt timeliness.

Change Detection: Maximum Mean Temperature, Phoenix, AZ

Data Completeness: Temperature, NW WA

WFOs

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Partnership Activities

WFOs

RegHQs

RFCs

CSD

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Leveraging Quality Climate Forecasting

Perhaps the greatest challenge is to develop one integratedintegrated observation plan for the atmosphere, ocean, and land which everyone can support.

Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., NOAA AdministratorSpeech to IOC and WMO - June 2002