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22nd Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW)

49th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (CDPW)

Joint Meeting
**CPASW-CDPW 2025 is postponed; More information to come by end of April**

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NOAA's 22nd Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW22) will be held in conjunction as a joint workshop with the NOAA's 49th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (CDPW49). The joint workshop will be hosted by the National Drought Mitigation Center at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is co-hosted by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the Climate Services Branch (CSB) of the National Weather Service (NWS), and several others. The joint workshop will bring together a community to share developments in research and application of weather and climate information for societal decision-making. Participants will include researchers, service producers, resource managers, planners, practitioners, social scientists, and others making weather and climate-sensitive decisions. The meeting is currently being planned as a hybrid in person / virtual event, hoping to combine the benefits of a face-to-face meeting with the potential for broader virtual participation. At this time, we are planning to have all speakers and poster presenters on site in Nebraska, with an option for virtual attendance for those who would like to listen to workshop speakers without traveling.

History of CPASW Test

The annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW), initiated in 2002 by the NOAA National Weather Service Climate Services Division, brings together a group of climate researchers, climate product producers, and climate information users to share developments in research and applications of climate predictions for societal decision-making. A unique planning team, consisting of several NOAA climate services partners, organizes and hosts CPASW at a different location each year to ensure varying climate application focuses, and both regional and national perspectives.

 

Links to previous CPASW workshops and information for the latest:
 

CPASW 2024 |CPASW 2023 |CPASW 2022 |CPASW 2020 | CPASW 2019 | CPASW 2018 | CPASW 2016 | CPASW 2006 | CPASW 2004

 

2025 CPASW - CDPW Joint Workshop Call for Abstracts

**CPASW-CDPW 2025 is postponed; More information to come by end of April**

It is with great pleasure that we announce the joint NOAA's 49th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop (CDPW49) and 22nd Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW22). The workshop will be hosted by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is co-hosted by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the Climate Services Branch (CSB) of the National Weather Service (NWS).

 

The workshop will bring together a community to share developments in research and application of weather and climate information for societal decision-making. Participants will include researchers, service producers, resource managers, emergency managers, planners, practitioners, social scientists, and others making weather- and climate-sensitive decisions. To build a Climate-Ready Nation, contributors along the entire climate services value chain will need to work in partnership with each other and in service to our communities.

 

The workshop will include oral and poster presentations, lightning talks, invited speakers, panel sessions, and group discussions. This year's workshop will also feature a special session dedicated to honoring Richard Heim’s (NOAA) and Mark Brusberg’s (USDA) scientific achievements in drought science and services.

 

This meeting is currently being planned as a hybrid in person / virtual event, hoping to combine the benefits of a face-to-face meeting with the potential for broader virtual participation. At this time, we are planning to have all speakers and poster presenters on site in Lincoln, with the option for virtual attendance for those who would like to listen to workshop speakers without traveling to Lincoln. Early bird and discounted student registration rates will be available.

 

The Joint Workshop will focus on these 5 major themes:

  1. Predictions, Predictability, and Forecast Verifications of Climate Variability:

    Topics of interest include methods and approaches for diagnostics and attribution of climate anomalies and of extreme events, including heat waves, Arctic cold air outbreaks, drought, wildfires, and excessive precipitation/flooding - particularly for the Central U.S. Additional topics include forecast verifications, evaluation metrics and their communication to users, understanding predictability limits, and attributions via process-level diagnostics to physical mechanisms such as tropical variability, polar amplification, sudden stratospheric warmings, marine heat waves, land-atmosphere-ocean interactions, etc.

     

  2. Advances in Improving Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) / Hydroclimate Prediction:

    Topics include recent advancements in S2S dynamical forecast and hydroclimate prediction systems, including improvements in forecast models, initialization, and ensembling techniques; the development of statistical forecast approaches (machine learning / artificial intelligence [ML/AI]); and improving the prediction of climate and hazardous extremes on S2S timescales — particularly in the Central U.S. Other topics of interest include understanding and predicting drought, flood, water availability, water cycle extremes, water resource management, and using advances in precipitation prediction to improve hydroclimate decision support.

     

  3. Use of Frontier Science and Technology to Advance Climate Science

    Topics of interest include a) making use of AI/ML advances in technology to maximize science usability and efficiency of services for effective decision making; b) Social, behavioral, and economic science (SBES) contributions towards understanding user needs and service expectations; and c) enhancing service delivery and communication of climate predictions, to aid decision making by key stakeholders.

     

  4. Drought Monitoring and Assessment 

    Topics of interest include recent advancements in drought monitoring science, including but not limited to, development of objective drought blends, drought assessment in a changing climate, development of new indices for better characterizing and monitoring of various drought types (e.g., flash drought, snow drought) and the study of related physical processes. Special session honoring Richard Heim (NOAA) and Mark Brusberg (USDA) highlighting their scientific achievements in drought science and services.

  5. Climate-Agriculture Connections and Advancements

    Topics of interest include a) developments in soil moisture monitoring utilizing the new Upper Missouri River Basin network and other new datasets; b) specialty and/or small-scale crop production; and c) climate-resilient agriculture.

Event Organizers

 

NWS Climate Services Branch (CSB)

NWS Climate Prediction Center (CPC)

National Drought Mitigation Center

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

USDA Midwest Climate Hub

NOAA Climate Program Office

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 

High Plains Regional Climate Center

Contact Us

Jenna Meyers (jenna.meyers@noaa.gov)

Maggie Hurwitz (margaret.hurwitz@noaa.gov)

Brian Fuchs (bfuchs2@unl.edu)

Hailan Wang (hailan.wang@noaa.gov)