NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

1. Climate Service Partnership Activities At NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center Tim Owen Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop Tallahassee, Florida 9-11 March 2004 NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

2. Climate Services: “The timely production and delivery of useful climate data, information, and knowledge to decision makers.” - Board of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 1999 What are Climate Services? NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

3. NCDC’s Mission: • 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. Protecting the Past, Revealing the Future NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

4. Scientific Stewardship Diligence Today Understanding Tomorrow Data Management • NCDC is the custodian of weather records, and is responsible for archival, access, and stewardship of climatological data and information. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

5. Assessment • NCDC provides climate perspectives through its monitoring and product development activities. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

6. Partnership • NCDC has a responsibility to leverage with key partners to maximize efficiency in climate services activities. Products & Services Data & Information Requirements Assessments & Research Observations NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

7. NCDC Resources for Climate Prediction • Historical Data Access • Model/Reference Data Access • Climate Perspectives • Climate Reference Network • Health of the Network • Partnership Activities NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

8. Historical Data Access Climate Database Modernization Program • Imaged and Digitized daily and hourly data, extending access to periods before 1948. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

9. Model/Reference Data Access • 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. • 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. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

10. Model/Reference Data Access Monthly SST model data product available through NOMADS. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

11. Climate Perspectives • NAO 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 NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

12. 225 proposed CRN sites (4000 stations used in normals) Climate Reference Network • Deployed network will service as anchor for other networks, contributing to reduced biases from national to regional scale. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

13. Data Completeness: Temperature, NW WA WFOs Health of the Network • Web-based reports of data completeness, data validity, data quality and receipt timeliness. Change Detection: Maximum Mean Temperature, Phoenix, AZ NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

14. Partnership Activities CSD Reg HQs RFCs WFOs NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center

15. Leveraging Quality Climate Forecasting • Perhaps the greatest challenge is to develop one integrated observation plan for the atmosphere, ocean, and land which everyone can support. • Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., NOAA Administrator • Speech to IOC and WMO - June 2002 NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center