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Training Need: NWS staff must understand how climate fluctuations
affect local weather variability in order to:
1. Incorporate this understanding into local products and services.
2. Explain climate issues to the public.
Training Objective: NWS field staff must be familiar with
important aspects of climate variability currently used in climate
monitoring and prediction.
Specific Job Task Skills and Knowledge
1. Demonstrate familiarity with the definition, description, teleconnections
and predictability of the following components:
ENSO
AO/NAO
PDO
MJO
Monsoonal systems
Land surface processes
Drought genesis and maintenance
Volcanic effects
Solar and lunar variabilities
Anthropogenic effects and global change
Internal modes of variability
Thermohaline circulation
Instructional Components:
Instructional Component 2.1: Introduction to Climate Variability
2.1.1. Climate Versus Weather (residence
training on Climate Variability)
2.1.2. Statistics in Climate Analysis
Glossary of Statistical Terms
Basic
Statistics I: definitions of climate time series, period and
frequency, histogram, pfd, mean, variance, etc.
Basic
Statistics II: climate time series spectrum, types of correlation
and definition of statistical noise
Statistical
Noise or Should Synopticians Worry About Climate? (*webcast)
2.1.3. Dynamic Climatology
Glossary of
Dynamic Meteorology Terms
Instructional Component 2.2: Season by Season Climate Patterns
2.2.1. Atmospheric Circulation and Sea Surface Temperature (residence
training on Climate Variability)
2.2.2. Monsoonal Systems (residence
training on Climate Variability)
Instructional Component 2.3: Intraseasonal Variability
2.3.1. Madden Julian Oscillation
The
Madden-Julian Oscillation Life Cycle (*webcast)
The
Role of the MJO in Oceanic and Atmospheric Variability (*webcasts)
MJO: Physical Mechanism, Prediction, and Impacts (residence
training on Climate Variability)
MJO: Communicating to Local Customers (residence
training on Operational Climate Services)
Instructional Component 2.4: Seasonal to Interannual Climate
Variability
2.4.1. ENSO
The
El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Cycle (*webcast)
ENSO
and Beyond (*webcast)
ENSO: Physical Mechanism, Prediction, and Impacts (residence
training on Climate Variability)
ENSO: Communicating to Local Customers (residence
training on Operational Climate Services)
2.4.2. AO/NAO (residence
training on Climate Variability)
2.4.3. Drought
Drought: Physical Mechanism, Prediction, and Impacts (residence
training on Climate Variability)
Drought: Communicating to Local Customers (residence
training on Operational Climate Services)
2.4.4. Volcanic Effects (not available at this time)
Instructional Component 2.5: Intra-decadal to Long-term Variability
2.5.1. Pacific Decadal Oscillations (residence
training on Climate Variability)
2.5.2. Global Change
Global Climate Change: Physical Mechanism, Prediction, and Impacts
(residence training
on Climate Variability)
Global Climate Change: Communicating to Local Customers (residence
training on Operational Climate Services)
2.5.3. Thermohaline Circulations (residence
training on Climate Variability)
2.5.4. Solar and Lunar Impacts (not available at this time)
Instructional Component 2.6: Land Surface Processes and Local
Effects (not available at this time)
*The
webcast is hosted by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
and requires a registration for tracking NOAA personnel training
progress. Anybody can register for free and use the modules.
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