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

国际和美国CLIVAR（气候变化和可预测性）（USCLIVAR PO）提供关键的基础设施支持，以协调规划和实施美国和国际研究活动，解决CLIVAR目标，这些目标是：- 描述和理解在季节、年际、十年和百年时间尺度上造成气候变率和可预测性的物理过程，与其他有关气候研究和观测方案合作，收集和分析观测结果，开发和应用耦合气候系统模型;通过收集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化的记录;通过发展全球耦合预测模型，扩大季节性气候预测到年际气候预测的范围和准确性;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，以检测自然气候信号的人为改变。该奖项支持USCLIVAR PO人员配备，美国科学家参加CLIVAR会议的旅行，开放科学研讨会的资金，以及与传播CLIVAR发现和机会所需的外联和通信相关的费用。该提案的智力价值使新的社区驱动的科学计划的发展，研究活动的实施协调，并提供援助，美国研究计划机构，使他们的计划更有效地促进双方同意的挑战。这项拟议活动产生的更广泛的影响是，科学界确定了社区，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;并催化（机构间赞助）研究活动。国家海洋和大气管理局、国家航空航天局和能源部提供了补充性的共同支助。

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, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Energy.