A Unified Global Weather and Climate Prediction System for the 21st Century
Sigma Xi Lecturer Melvyn A. Shapiro, CIRES
Nov. 3, 12:15 PM FL2 1022
Advancing the skill of global high-impact weather forecasts and reducing the uncertainty
of climate predictions, for the benefit of society and the health of our planet.
* Develop a unified, ultra-high-resolution, seamless global prediction system for
weather and climate that resolves extreme weather events embedded within weekly
weather forecasts, and seasonal, inter-annual and decadal climate predictions.
* Develop advanced high-resolution data-assimilation systems to enhance the utility of
global observations of the Earth system for the monitoring and prediction of weather and
climate from hours to years.
* Contribute to the design and implementation of an Earth Observing System that
satisfies the observational requirements spanning short-term forecasts and the prediction
and assessment of climate variability and change.
* Facilitate regional field campaigns to improve and evaluate parameterizations and
explicit representations of physical processes in weather and climate predictions systems.
* Provide predictions of short-term weather hazards, climate variability and change
including the climatology of extreme events, and their inherent uncertainties, to policy
makers and stakeholders of global societies to assist in their decisions regarding
mitigation and sustainable development.
* Demonstrate the feasibility and evaluate the performance of the unified global weather
and climate prediction system.
For more information, contact Don Lenschow at ext. 8903, lenschow@ucar.edu,
or see the Web page at Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureships - 2009-2010 Lecturers.
Mon, Nov 2, 2009 to Tue, Nov 3, 2009
