Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) IDSS Residence Training
Next Offering: To Be Determined Location: NWS Training Center
Introduction
Agenda
Logistics
Prerequisites
Contact Information
Introduction
The five-day course is a trainee-participatory course with heavy emphasis on exercises, labs, and discussions and practice sessions providing working knowledge and skills needed for Impact-based Decision Support Services at Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) time scales. The course prerequisites are distance learning modules that must be taken prior to the course. The residence course topics will include:
Fundamentals of climate data, observations, forecast, and application products reviewed through Q&A with course instructors, drawing on materials covered in the prerequisites
CPC forecast products including Week-2 Hazards and Temperature and Precipitation forecasts from Week-2 through Seasonal
El Niño-Southern Oscillation monitoring and prediction
Climate Change
xmACIS, Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT), Climate at a Glance, NOAA PSL plotting tools
Fundamentals of S2S communication
Communication with core partners
Public messaging
Media Training
Fundamentals of S2S IDSS
Identification of core partners
Relationship building
Service delivery by sector and application
Guided applications of climate products in realistic scenarios
Climate data requests
Basic forecast interpretative services
Basic climate change impacts
Independent completion of scenario exercises that become progressively more complex, with instructor feedback
Integrate weather and climate
Communicate weather extremes in a climate context
Fold in climate change context and messaging where appropriate
Respond to climate data requests as part of IDSS delivery
Expected specific outcomes
Each trainee, upon completion of the residence training, should be able to:
Clearly and correctly communicate the CPC outlooks for any time window at any location.
Following best practices, respond to media-like questions about climate, including climate outlooks, climate data, and climate change.
Apply climate tools and resources to create local climate studies and background information, either in advance/for reference or on the fly during events.
Identify and communicate climatological risks of extreme weather and water events and place an ongoing extreme event in a climatological context in the area of responsibility.
Select and communicate meteorological and climatological information to NWS core partners that a) is relevant to support their decision making and b) in the most effective format to facilitate core partner understanding.
Course Organizing Team:NOAA team:
Marina Timofeyeva, NWS Climate Services Branch Chief
Stephen Baxter, NWS Climate Services Program Manager
Andrea Bair, NWS Western Region Climate Services Program Manager
Barb Mayes-Boustead, NWS Warning Decision Training Division
Chelsea Peters, NWS Sacremento
Shawn Rossi, NWS Hastings
Jenna Meyers, NWS Climate Services Branch
Jim Keeney, NWS Training Center
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Know the Infrastructure for Climate Data and Services
Understand Climate Variability and Change and Apply to Local Services
Understand the Basis and Methodologies of CPC Products
Use NOAA Climate Products and Tools in Local Climate Services
Apply Climate Information to Decision Support, Partnership, and Communication
Understand Principles for Conducting Timely, Accurate, and Consistent Climate Data Observations and the Broad Range of Their Applications
Operational Climate Services
Climate Variability
Advanced Climate Variability
Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) IDSS
