Links related to seasonal forecasting

This page contains links pointing to some institutions, research groups, and projects with contents closely related to DEMETER. In order to help the reader, a classification in three folders has been adopted, though cross-links might be found.

* Modelling:

• CDC
• Climate Prediction Center, NOAA
• CLIVAR
• COAPS, Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction Studies
• ECCO, Estimated time-varying ocean model state and surface flux fields
• ECPC, Experimental Climate Prediction Centre
• EPIC, Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate processes
• Experimental Long-Lead Forecast Bulletin
• GFDL experimental seasonal prediction
• IRI, International Research Institute
• MERCATOR
• NOAA (including a list of links for El Niño predictions)
• NASA Seasonal to Interannual Prediction Project
• POAMA, BMRC
• PREDICATE, Predictability of Decadal Fluctuations in the Euro-Atlantic Area
• PRISM
• Report of the Joint WCRP/SCOR Working Group on Air-Sea Fluxes
• SINTEX
• SOC, Southampton Oceanography Centre
• UCL, SST statistical forecasts by the University College London
• University of Cape Town Seasonal Forecasting Project

* User applications:

• CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
• CLIPS
• Department of Agriculture of Western Australia
• EARS Crops monitoring and early warning
• Economic and Human Dimension Programs (NOAA)
• EVAC project
• International Society of Biometeorology
• International Society for Agricultural Meteorology (INSAM)
• MICE
• Multilateral Initiative on Malaria
• NASA studies on Mediterranean agriculture climate impacts
• NCAR Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG)
• List of impacts at NOAA
• PROMISE
• Risk Analyses of Heat Units Available for Corn and Soybean Production in Quebec
• Roll Back Malaria
• RPI at Bermuda Biological Station for Research
• Societal Aspects of Weather
• The Crisis of Neglected Diseases (Medecins sans Frontieres)
• TSUNAMI
• UK Food Chain (follow the links "Food Chain & Crops for Industry" and then "Seasonal Weather Forecasting for the Food Chain")
• Weather and Climate Forecast Use and Value Biliography
• WHO
• Workshop on the impacts of the 1997/99 ENSO event

* Downscaling:

• ACCORD
• IMPETUS
• MAP, Mesoscale Alpine Program
• Regional Climate Models intercomparison
• STARDEX

* Seasonal forecasting research projects

• Climate Information Project
• IRI ENSO Probability Maps
• IRI Consensus Forecasts
• PROVOST at ECMWF (secured page)
• SMIP2 and SMIP2/HPF

* Verification:

• BMRC Weather Forecasting Group forecast verification documentation
• CMIP (Validation of coupled models)
• Economic value of forecasts
• Glossary of verification terms
• WMO Report on the development of a long-range forecasting verification system