SCIPP Hosts National Climate Workshop

The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) and the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) will host the seventh annual Climate Prediction Applications Science (CPAS) Workshop March 24-27, 2009 in Norman, Oklahoma. This annual workshop brings together a diverse group of climate applications researchers, climate product developers, and users to discuss developments in research and applications related to climate services and the use of climate prediction in societal decision making. The meeting has four goals:


1. to identify new climate prediction applications research,

2. to build community by promoting interactions between integrated climate-sensitive research and service communities,

3. to assess impacts of climate forecasts on environmental-societal interactions, and

4. to provide feedback to producers of climate products on user requirements.


Consistent with these goals, a variety of themes will be addressed at the 2009 workshop including the following: Stakeholder Evaluation of Climate Products and Services, Drought Monitoring and Tools, Water Issues, Agricultural Applications, Regional Climate Modeling Applications, Extreme Events and Severe Weather Applications, Products and Tools, and Fostering Collaborations in Decision Support Tool Development.

SCIPP and OCS were selected to host the 2009 CPAS Workshop following the selection of SCIPP as the ninth and newest Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program in the United States in 2008. The National Weather Service Climate Services Division co-organizes the workshop each year with different partners who host the event.


For more information on SCIPP, which is a collaborative research program between the University of Oklahoma and Louisiana State University, please visit the new program website at: http://www.southernclimate.org. For more information about this years CPAS Workshop please visit: http://climate.ok.gov/cpasw/.