Understanding Climate Information

The mission of the National Climate Predictions and Projections (NCPP) Platform is to advance the community-coordinated provision of regional and local knowledge about the evolving climate and to accelerate its use in adaptation planning and decision making. NCPP activities are focused on linking existing capabilities and working to fill gaps. NCPP’s target customer is the “climate interpreter,” as described in the 2012 National Academy of Science Report, A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling. Implementation is achieved through focused projects, connected together in evaluation workshops.  The evaluation workshops are focused on developing application-driven protocols for evaluation of localized climate predictions and projections.  The infrastructure and protocols from one workshop are used in the next, thereby, developing capacity.  The first NCPP workshop (August 2013) is focused on evaluation of downscaled climate projections for the United States. 

NCPP Projects include...

Climate Data Service Capabiliites	Data and Downscaling Evaluation and Translation	Regional and Sectoral Pilots and Applications

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