CDPW Announcement:  NOAA's 37th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop will be held in Fort Collins, Colorado, on 22-25 October 2012. The workshop will be hosted by the Colorado State University (CSU) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA); and co-sponsored by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The AMS is a cooperating sponsor.

The workshop will address the status and prospects for advancing climate prediction, monitoring, and diagnostics, with emphasis on five major themes:

1. Improving climate prediction tools and techniques through dynamical and statistical models and methods, forecaster practices and protocols, data and model improvements, and scientific concepts.

2. Prospects for improved understanding, prediction, and simulation of intra-seasonal, seasonal, and inter-annual climate variability, including the extratropical annular modes, stratosphere/troposphere coupling, tropical-extratropical interactions, land-surface forcing, etc.

3. Climate variability and prediction in relation to the hydrologic cycle and in particular Western water resources.

4. Prediction and attribution of recent high impact weather and climate events.

5. Improving climate services through the application of new technologies, including GIS, statistical tools, and software development practices.

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   Research Advancement

1. Tropical-extratropical teleconnections in boreal summer: Observed interannual variability

   by Qinghua Ding et al.

2. Tropical ISO and extratropical extreme weather during the 2009-2011 ENSO cycle

   by Bin Wang et al.

3. The limits of detecting forced responses on seasonal and continental scales

   by Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole

4. Decadal variation of rainfall seasonality in the North American Monsoon region and its potential causes

   by Paola A. Arias et al.

5. A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal prediction experiments

   by Lisa Goddard et al.

6. Recalibrating and combining ensemble predictions

   by Michael K. Tippett et al.

7. A metrics for boreal summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillation

   by June-Yi Lee et al.

8. The role of sub-seasonal tropical convective variability for the midlatitude response to ENSO

   by Erik Swenson and David Straus

9. Primary factors contributing to Japan's extremely hot summer of 2010

   by Nobuyuki Kayaba et al.

10. Decadal variations in Eurasian snow: Relation with circulation and possible influence on spring rainfall over China

    by Zhiyan Zuo et al.

11. Precipitation characteristics of the South American Monsoon System derived from multiple data sets

    by Leila M. V. Carvalho et al.

   Operation Development

1. An emerging protocol for research-to-operations (R2O) at CPC

   by Ed O'Lenic et al.

2. An iterative projection method to calculate EOFs successively without use of the covariance matrix

   by Huug van den Dool

3. Performance characteristics of forecasts based on a lagged ensemble

   by David Unger

     Information Links

• IRI/CPC ENSO Predictions Plume

• NOAA Climate Attribution

• Predictability

  Madden-Julian Oscillation

  Annular Modes

  Pacific Decadal Oscillation

  CU/IRI Climate Predictability Tool

  Climate Debate Daily

• Forecast Verification

WMO Lead Center for LRFVS

• Ensemble Prediction

  DEMETER

  EU ENSEMBLES