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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center Climate Perspectives NAO spatial pattern from the analysis from for the Northern Hemisphere winter. Standardized Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) Percent of Conterminous U.S. Wet,

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

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

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

NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center Leveraging Quality Climate Forecasting integrated 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