Weather - Climate Interface

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David Parsons
Mitch Moncrieff
Keith Oleson
Rich Neale

Weather-Climate Interface

A set of common and challenging problems--that we define as the weather-climate interface--have hindered both weather prediction and climate projections, and where the skills and interests of both communities are essential to their solution. The overarching goal of WCI activities is to enhance dialogue and forge alliances among investigators motivated by weather prediction and climate system research toward the benefit of both applications.

Much of the public and policy concern with global change is how the intensity, frequency and location of high-impact weather events might evolve under the various global change scenarios. This concern is driven in large part by our current need to mitigate weather and climate disasters in both developed and developing nations and to improve decision making for agriculture, transportation, water management and other key sectors of the economy. Improving the simulation of these high impact events in weather and climate modeling is a key component of the response to these urgent needs of society.