Support for the World Climate Research Programme

该奖项支持世界气候研究计划（WCRP）。WCRP在确保全球、区域和国家气候研究界建立持久、严谨和科学的基础以满足对可靠和有用的区域气候信息的迫切需求方面起着带头作用。WCRP正在通过国际协调，寻求与耦合气候系统相关的前沿科学问题，这些问题太大、太复杂，无法由一个国家、机构、机构或科学学科来解决。在此过程中，WCRP将来自美国和世界各地的科学家聚集在一起，在他们职业生涯的各个阶段，推进对气候系统组成部分与外部强迫因子之间多尺度动态相互作用的理解，以及解决和研究人类对气候和社会的作用。WCRP为气候政策和业务重点服务的制定提供信息，并与其他项目合作促进科学能力建设和教育。模拟和观测能力以及面向社会的区域气候信息中心将促进这些活动的国际协调。预期的结果将包括在多年至十年时间尺度上在全球和区域尺度上进行预警和预测的综合能力；在局地尺度上有意义的气候信息；考虑到人类和自然系统的办法；以及代表地球过去、现在和未来可能状况的数字和动态计算模型。WCRP还通过与国家和国际科学伙伴的合作，为开展持续的评估、交流和教育作出重大贡献。WCRP的活动直接有助于实现美国全球变化研究计划的目标。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). WCRP is taking the lead in ensuring that the global, regional, and national climate research communities create the enduring, rigorous and scientific foundation required to meet the urgent demand for robust and useful regional climate information. WCRP is pursuing – through international coordination – frontier scientific questions related to the coupled climate system that are too large and too complex to be tackled by a single nation, agency, institution, or scientific discipline. In doing so, WCRP brings together scientists from the US and around the world, at all stages of their careers, to advance the understanding of the multi-scale dynamic interactions between components of the climate system and external forcing factors, as well as addressing and studying the role of humans on climate and society. WCRP informs the development of policies and operationally focused climate services, and promotes science capacity building and education in partnership with other programs.Hubs for modeling and observations capabilities and for regional climate information for society will facilitate international coordination of the activities. The expected outcomes would include integrated capabilities for warning and prediction on global and regional scales at the multi-annual to decadal timescales; climate information meaningful at the local scale; approaches that take into account human and natural systems; and digital and dynamic computational models that represent past, current, and possible future conditions on the Earth. WCRP also contributes significantly through its collaboration with national and international scientific partners to conducting sustained assessments, communication and education. WCRP activities contribute directly to the goals of the US Global Change Research Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.