Welcome to CPASW 2015! Thank you to our co-hosts • New Mexico State University/ NM State Climatologist • USDA Southwest Regional Climate Hub Would also like to acknowledge • All our attendees! • NOAA support – – – – OAR Climate Program Office NWS Climate Prediction Center NWS Region and Field Offices NESDIS NCEI RCSDs We are • NWS Climate Services Division • Soon to be NWS Climate Services Branch 1 Welcome to CPASW 2015! Purpose – To help facilitate the dialogue on user needs, CPASW brings together a diverse group of climate applications researchers, climate product producers, and users to share developments in research and applications related to the use of climate predictions in societal decision-making. Goals – Identify new climate prediction applications research – “Build community” by promoting interactions between integrated climate-sensitive research and service communities – Assess impacts of climate forecasts on environmental-societal interactions – Provide feedback to producers of climate products on user requirements 2 CPASW History 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 2002 – Alexandria, VA 2004 - Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL 2005 – IRI/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY 2006 – CLIMAS/Univ. AZ, Tucson, AZ 2007 – CIG/Univ. Wash, Seattle, WA 2008 – Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2009 – OK Climatological Survey, Norman, OK 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 2010 – CA Dept. Water Resources, San Diego, CA 2011 – Iowa State Univ., Des Moines, IA 2012 – RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL 2013 – Utah State Univ., Logan, UT 2014 – George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA 2015 – New Mexico State University/USDA Southwest Regional Climate Hub, Las Cruces, NM 3 2016 – Univ. Vermont, Burlington, This Year’s Theme • Climate and Drought Information for Food Resilience, Agriculture, and Water Resources • Past themes – Climate Information for – Natural Resource Management – Agriculture – National Security – Health, Energy and Transportation 4