CTB Announcement:  CFSv2 Evaluation Workshop will be held in College Park, Maryland, 30 April - 1 May 2012. The purpose of this workshop is to evaluate CFSv2 in terms of its utility for climate modeling research and as a climate forecasting tool. The objectives of this workshop are to bring NCEP and the broader climate community together to:

1. document progress in model performance from CFSv1 to CFSv2, including the impacts of reanalysis, initializing atmosphere/ocean/land, and the change in the model itself;

2. identify key model biases and deficiencies in the CFSv2;

3. help identify most promising research directions for the development of CFSv3, for example, to design experiments to understand how to incrementally improve upon CFSv2, and to test coupling of the latest GFS with state-of-the-art model components.

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1. Skill of real-time seasonal ENSO model predictions during 2002-2011 — Is our capability increasing?

   by Anthony G. Barnston et al.

2. Preliminary evaluation of multi-Model ensemble system for monthly and seasonal prediction

   by Qin Zhang et al.

3. Implementation of land information system in the NCEP operational Climate Forecast System CFSv2

   by Jesse Meng et al.

4. Seasonal prediction of ecosystems, fire, carbon using NCEP/CFS and a dynamic vegetation model

   by Ning Zeng et al.

5. Low-frequency SST variability in CMIP5 historical integrations

   by Lydia Stefanova and Timothy LaRow

6. Introduction to the KMA-Met Office Joint Seasonal Forecasting System and evaluation of its hindcast ensemble simulations

   by Hyun-Suk Kang et al.

7. Problem of cloud overlap in radiation process in JMA global NWP model

   by Ryoji Nagasawa

Information Links

• Climate Forecast System Forum

• Climate Test Bed Meetings

• ECMWF Seasonal Forecast Operational System

• NCAR CCSM

• NOAA/GFDL CM2

• UK Met Office Unified Model System

• Australian POAMA