Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012 TO THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012

Fort Collins Hilton
425 West Prospect
Fort Collins, CO 80526

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 Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) and the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University; and co-sponsored by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The American Meteorological Society 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:

• Improving climate prediction tools and techniques through dynamical and statistical models and methods, forecaster practices and protocols, data and model improvements, and scientific concepts.
• Prospects for improved understanding, prediction, and simulation of intra-seasonal, seasonal, inter-annual climate variability, including the extratropical annual modes, stratosphere/troposhere coupling, tropical-extratropical interactions, land-surface forcing, etc.
• Climate variability and prediction in relation to the hydrologic cycle and in particular Western water resources.
• Prediction and attribution of recent high impact weather and climate events.
• Improving climate services through the application of new technologies, including GIS, statistical tools, and software development practices.

The workshop will feature daytime presentations, invited speakers, and panel discussions with a poster session event on one evening.

By clicking on the link below, you will be entering the NOAA CPC website where there will be links to the abstract submission page and the agenda:

www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outreach/CDPW37.shtml

Important Notice Regarding Posters

After the conclusion of the poster session, please remove your poster from the wall and take it with you. If you do not want to take it, there will be a recycling bin available.

If you are travelling with your poster, you can drop it off at the registration table on Monday when you check in for the conference.

If you are mailing your poster to your hotel, please make sure it arrives in time to bring it to Monday’s registration.

By clicking on the link below, you will be entering the NOAA CDPW website. The following link will take you directly to the abstract submission form:

www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outreach/cdpw/

Important Notice Regarding Posters

After the conclusion of the poster session, please remove your poster from the wall and take it with you. If you do not want to take it, there will be a recycling bin available.

If you are travelling with your poster, you can drop it off at the registration table on Monday when you check in for the conference.

If you are mailing your poster to your hotel, please make sure it arrives in time to bring it to Monday’s registration.

Student Travel Assistance is being supported by contributions from the CSU Department of Atmospheric Science and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.

There are a limited number of student travel subsidies available. Please contact Amy Butler: amy.butler@noaa.gov or Melissa Ou:melissa.ou@noaa.gov to apply.

Workshop Coordinators:

Amy Butler
amy.butler@noaa.gov
301-683-3442

Melissa Ou
melissa.ou@noaa.gov
301-683-3414

Local Organizers

Joanne DiVico
Joanne.DiVico@colostate.edu
970-491-8636

Holli Knutson
Holli.Knutson@colostate.edu
970-491-8209