MAPP - NOAA Climate Test Bed - Accelerating Transition of Research into Operations
NOAA’s operational climate monitoring products and predictions are a core part of NOAA’s mission to support economic vitality and protect American lives and resources. These products and predictions are produced by the National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and are aimed toward providing the public with critical information about environmental conditions for better preparedness and improved resiliency. Products include outlooks from a few weeks to several seasons ahead for quantities such as precipitation, temperature, tropical hazards, drought, and other societally-relevant climate system impacts.
As part of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program includes support for transition of research into improved NOAA operational capabilities. In particular, the MAPP Program partners with NCEP to support the NOAA Climate Test Bed1 (CTB) to demonstrate the potential for scientific advances from the community external to NCEP to accelerate the improvement of operational climate models, monitoring, and predictions. The MAPP Program provides support for testing and demonstration research activities while NCEP provides support for the operational implementation activities. In FY 2016 the MAPP Program is soliciting research proposals to advance NOAA’s operational capabilities for climate monitoring and predictions a few weeks to several seasons ahead as part of NOAA CTB.