PSL Hosts 40th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop

NOAA's 40th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop will be held in Denver, Colorado on 26-29 October 2015. The workshop is being hosted by ESRL's Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) and both co-organized and co-sponsored with the Climate Prediction Center of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Climate Services Division of the National Weather Service. A number of PSL personnel are also involved in the workshop proceedings.

The workshop will address the status and prospects for advancing climate prediction, monitoring, and diagnostics, and will focus on five major themes:

• The evolution of climate diagnostics and prediction over the last 40 years.
• Extremes and risk management: knowledge and products to connect the diagnostics and prediction of extremes with preparedness and adaptation strategies.
• The prediction, attribution, and analysis of drought and pluvial in the framework of climate variability and change.
• Diagnostics and prediction of high impact extreme climate events.
• Prediction and attribution of Arctic climate variability, and the linkages of Arctic variability to lower latitudes.

Posted: October 21, 2015