NASA Support for the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Project Office Activities, 2009-2014

国际和美国CLIVAR(气候可变性和可预测性)项目办公室(USCLIVAR PO)提供关键的基础设施支持，导致协调规划和实施美国和国际研究活动，以实现CLIVAR的目标：-通过收集和分析观测数据，并与其他相关气候研究和观测项目合作，开发和应用耦合气候系统模型，描述和了解在季节、年际、十年和百年时间尺度上负责气候可变性和可预测性的物理过程；-通过汇编有质量控制的古气候和仪器数据集，扩大有关时间尺度上气候变异性的记录；-通过开发全球耦合预测模型，扩大季节性和年际气候预测的范围和精度；以及-了解和预测气候系统对辐射活性气体和气溶胶增加的反应，并将这些预测与观测到的气候记录进行比较，以便发现对自然气候信号的人为修改。该奖项支持USCLIVAR PO的人员配备、美国科学家参加CLIVAR会议的差旅、开放式科学研讨会的资金以及与宣传CLIVAR发现和机会所需的外展和通信相关的费用。这一建议的智力价值有助于制定新的社区驱动的科学计划，协调研究活动的实施，并为美国研究计划机构提供帮助，使其计划更有效地为应对双方都同意的挑战做出贡献。这项拟议活动产生的更广泛影响是，科学界确定社区、赞助机构和国家感兴趣的新兴气候科学研究课题；评估当前的活动以确定计划差距；以及催化(机构间赞助的)研究活动。国家海洋和大气管理局和国家航空航天局提供了互补的共同支助。

The International and U.S. CLIVAR (CLImate VARiability and predictability) Project Offices (USCLIVAR PO) provide critical infrastructure support leading to the coordinated planning and implementation of U.S. and international research activities that address CLIVAR goals which are to: - describe and understand the physical processes responsible for climate variability and predictability on seasonal, inter-annual, decadal, and centennial time-scales, through the collection and analysis of observations and the development and application of models of the coupled climate system, in cooperation with other relevant climate-research and observing programs; - extend the record of climate variability over the time-scales of interest through the assembly of quality-controlled paleoclimatic and instrumental data sets; - extend the range and accuracy of seasonal to inter-annual climate prediction through the development of global coupled predictive models; and - understand and predict the response of the climate system to increases of radiatively active gases and aerosols and to compare these predictions to the observed climate record in order to detect the anthropogenic modification of the natural climate signal. This award supports the USCLIVAR PO staffing, travel by U.S. scientists to participate in CLIVAR meetings, funds for open science workshops, and costs associated with outreach and communications necessary to communicate CLIVAR findings and opportunities. The intellectual merit of this proposal enables development of new community-driven scientific plans, coordination of research activity implementation, and provides assistance to U.S. research program agencies so their programs more effectively contribute towards mutually agreeable challenges. The broader impacts resulting from this proposed activity are that the scientific community identifies emerging climate science research topics of interest to the community, sponsoring agencies, and to the nation; assesses current activities to identify program gaps; and catalyzes (interagency sponsored) research activities. Complementary co-support is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.