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NWS Climate Services

NWS Climate Services. Barbara Mayes Meteorologist / Customer Liaison NWS Climate Services Division Silver Spring, MD September 22, 2004 Illinois State Water Survey. NWS Climate Services Overview. NWS Climate Services Overview Definition and Vision Climate Services Division (CSD) Info

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NWS Climate Services

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  1. NWS Climate Services Barbara Mayes Meteorologist / Customer Liaison NWS Climate Services Division Silver Spring, MD September 22, 2004 Illinois State Water Survey OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  2. NWS Climate ServicesOverview • NWS Climate Services Overview • Definition and Vision • Climate Services Division (CSD) Info • NWS Regional and Local Climate Services Goals • NWS Climate Services Activities • Outreach • Regional and Local Climate Services Implementation • Training • Other Projects OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  3. NWS Climate ServicesDefinition and Vision • Real-time monitoring • Forecasting products and services • Models and technology, model output • Observations • Customer education, assistance, and outreach OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  4. NWS Climate Services Vision • Real-time monitoring of climate variability (including drought conditions) over the United States down to the county level • New forecast products • Linking weather and climate on intraseasonal time scales • Downscaled to local levels • Reflecting new insight into drought and warm season precipitation • Extending beyond a year to a decade or more OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  5. NWS Climate ServicesVision • User-friendly provider to the private sector of NWS climate models, climate forecast model output, climate guidance products, and know-how • Sustained capability to ensure the accuracy and continuity of the U.S. historical record • Fully-mobilized regional and field offices for • Customer outreach • Downscaling climate forecasts • Product and information dissemination • Integration and quality control of surface observations OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  6. NWS Climate ServicesNOAA Climate Services Team OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  7. NWS Climate ServicesCSD Mission Provide vision, direction, and resources to ensure NWS climate services are easily accessible, well understood, optimally used, and reflect customer needs OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  8. NWS Climate ServicesCSD Roles • Produce guidelines and directives • Ensure availability of training • Coordinate requirements • Facilitate partnerships • Ensure adequate resources OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  9. NWS Climate ServicesCSD Personnel OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  10. NWS Climate ServicesRegional/Local Goals • Goal 1: Organize and equip the regional and local offices with guidelines and tools to enhance climate services. • Goal 2: Provide reliable, timely, accurate, and secure observations and metadata for the climate record. • Goal 3: Enhance and extend CPC’s product suite to increase the use and effectiveness of regional and local climate information. • Goal 4: Conduct outreach to regional and local decision-makers and users of climate services products. • Goal 5: Establish strong partnerships with the climate community to facilitate collaborations in the delivery of regional and local climate services. OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  11. NWS Climate ServicesRegional Climate Services Partners OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  12. NWS Climate Services OutreachPast Events (2001-03) OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  13. NWS Climate Services OutreachPast Events (2004) OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  14. NWS Climate Services OutreachUpcoming Events (2005) OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  15. NWS Climate Services OutreachActivities • Media Toolkit • Enhance cooperation between NWS and media to facilitate customer outreach efforts • Target audience: Field offices, media, partners (state climatologists), public • Content • Links and guidance for data access • Contacts for climate within NWS • Links to NWS climate training • Outreach materials (i.e. pdf brochure files) • Announcements for upcoming outreach activities and releases • Links to research or prominent articles • Completed December 2004 OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  16. NWS Climate Services OutreachUpcoming Activities • Brochures and Booths • Developing brochures for distribution to general public: • NWS climate prediction products • Sources of climate data • General climate information • Drought • Developing displays for NWS Climate to use at conferences, workshops, etc. OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  17. NWS Climate Services OutreachCustomer Satisfaction Index Survey • Solicited customer opinion of NWS products • Compared CSI rating to other government agencies and other service areas of NWS • Surveyed in October-November 2004 • Results available in January 2005 OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  18. NWS Climate ServicesRegional/Local Implementation • FY05 • Contractors available for the regions – product specialist, web design specialist, outreach specialist • Downscaling becomes operational * • Compositing begins in field offices * • NOAA Climate Transition Program (NCTP) begins * • FY06 and beyond • Maintain FY05 services • Continue downscaling and compositing development * Contingent on funding OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  19. NWS Climate ServicesTraining • One offering of Climate Variability residence course • Two offerings of new Climate Ops course • Continued development of Climate Professional Competency Units (PCUs):www.nws.noaa.gov/om/csd/pds/index.html OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  20. NWS Climate ServicesSupported Projects • Developing statistical downscaling of CPC outlooks. • Defining new homogeneous Climate Divisions for the United States (NOAA/OAR/CDC/CIRES). • Implementing web tool for interpretation of probabilistic forecasts. OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  21. NWS Climate ServicesNOAA Climate Transition Program • Distributes funds via open competitive grant • Ensures the sustained delivery of user-driven climate research products to operations • Emphasizes partnership between research and operational agencies • Supports products with strong stakeholder requirement • Initial awards to be granted in Fiscal Year 2005; program will expand in FY 2007 and beyond. • Contact: Fiona Horsfall (Fiona.Horsfall@noaa.gov) OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

  22. NWS Climate ServicesKey NOAA Activities • CSD Chief and CPC Director sit on NOAA Climate Office (NCO) Board • Matrix link to other LOs directly and through NCO • Lead development of infrastructure for regional climate services. • Lead Climate Program Element 5: Regional Decision Support • Develop organizational models (with OAR/OGP and CDC) • Develop and champion NWS climate budget initiatives: • Intraseasonal to Interannual Prediction Research and Development • Regional and Local Climate Services • Overlapping Flights for Radiosonde Replacement Program OCWWS -- CLIMATE SERVICES DIVISION

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