1. 1 Overview of CPC’s Operations Branch February 11, 2011 Ed O’Lenic Chief, Operations Branch NOAA-NWS-Climate Prediction Center

2. Overview Outline Human Resources Products Users Plans 2

3. 3 CPC Federal / Support Staff & Budget UnitCount Budget Source NWS Base Reimbursible* Director’s Office 4 X Operations Branch25 X Development Branch21 X Contractors ** UCAR;UMD;Visitors 25 15 X Total90 6.2M 2.7M *Sources: Climate Program Office NWS/Intl Affairs NESDIS USAID NASA ** WYLE Information Systems, McLean, VA

4. CPC Operations Branch NTOP Rankings 4

5. 5 U.S. Hazards Assessment, Days 3-14 Extreme Events

6. 6 Global Hazards and Benefits, Weeks 1, 2

7. 7 Extended Range Forecasts, 6-10, 8-14 Days

8. 8 North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS) U.S.-Canada-Mexico

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10. 10 Monthly Internet Reports 46

11. 11 other.net.com U.S..us CPC Web Site Users.gov.edu.org.mil.co.ca

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13. 13 Inter-Active Verification Web Tool

14. 14 Conversion of CPC Products to GIS Format BEFORE AFTER Interoperability & Zoom In

15. 15 NOAA’s Climate Portal http://climate.gov

16. 16 Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (JAWF) A USDA – DOC partnership Products – Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin – Climate Prediction, Monitoring, and Assessment Briefings & Weather Summary Contributions – Weekly briefing ppt on global weather & crop conditions International Desk at CPC in support of JAWF

17. 17 Improvements to CPC Operations Climate Forecast System (CFS) ImprovementsClimate Forecast System (CFS) Improvements –CFSv1, 2 Evaluations done at CPC Climate Forecast ProductsClimate Forecast Products –Objective consolidation of 3-month forecast tools –North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS) –Inter-active 3-Month exceedance graph –User participation in forecasts via telcons and webinars –Collaborative 3-month and Hazards production –New climatologies – reanalysis, stations –Interactive skill tool, databases, archives CPC Computing Infrastructure ImprovementsCPC Computing Infrastructure Improvements –Version control (Subversion), Bug Tracking (Trac) –Staff training/applications in Java, PHP –Collaborative projects with U. Arizona, NCEP-NCO