S2S and Climate Predictability and Process Research Supported by NOAA Climate Program Office

The NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO)’s mission is to advance Earth system and social science, integrated information, and services to build a climate ready nation. CPO is part of NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). A CPO core function is to support extramural research through a competitive grants process. CPO’s programs span foundational, cross-disciplinary climate sciences, assessments, capacity building, tool development, and education. CPO collaborates closely with partners within NOAA labs/centers/programs and with the broader community.

CPO’s Earth System Science and Modeling (ESSM) Division supports research to advance broad understanding of the Earth system through observations, monitoring, process science, and modeling in the climate area, and to advance NOAA’s mission through collaborations with the external community. ESSM consists of five competitive research programs, including AC4 (Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate), COM (Climate Observation and Monitoring), CVP (Climate Variability and Predictability), ERB (Earth’s Radiation Budget) and MAPP (Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections).

This presentation will show the recent research supported by CPO/ESSM programs (mainly CVP and MAPP) in the areas of understanding the sources and limits of climate predictability (especially for extreme precipitation and temperatures, droughts, fisheries, coastal inundations) and the key processes that influence model biases to simulate/predict the key phenomena and variables at the subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) timescale. We would like to take this opportunity to discuss with the community CPO’s role in seamless Earth system modeling and predictions across the S2S and climate timescales.