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National Climate Model Portal

NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and its collaborators have initiated a five-year development and implementation of an operational access capability for the next generation weather and climate model datasets. The NOAA National Climate Model Portal (NCMP) is being designed using format neutral open web based standards and tools where users at all levels of expertise can gain access and understanding to many of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) climate and weather model products. NCMP will closely coordinate with and reside under the emerging NOAA Climate Services Portal (NCSP). To carry out its mission NOAA must be able to successfully integrate model output and other data and information from all of its discipline specific areas to understand and address the complexity of many environmental problems. The NCMP will be an initial access point for the emerging NOAA Climate Services Portal (NCSP), which is the basis for unified access to NOAA climate products and services. NCMP is currently collaborating with the emerging Environmental Projection Center (EPC) expected to be developed at the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder CO. Specifically, NCMP is being designed to:

• Enable policy makers and resource managers to make informed national and global policy decisions using integrated climate and weather model outputs, observations, information, products, and other services for the scientist and the non-scientist;
• Identify model to observational interoperability requirements for climate and weather system analysis and diagnostics;
• Promote the coordination of an international reanalysis observational clearinghouse (i.e., Reanalysis.org) spanning the worlds numerical processing Center's for an "Ongoing Analysis of the Climate System".

NCMP will initially provide access capabilities to 3 of NOAA's high volume Reanalysis data sets of the weather and climate systems:

1. NCEP's Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFS-R);
2. NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project data set (20CR, G. Compo, et al.), a historical reanalysis that will provide climate information dating back to 1850 to the present; and
3. the CPC's Upper Air Reanlaysis.