NOAA/NCEP is the lead agency with responsibility for producing US operational climate monitoring, models and predictions on time scales ranging from weeks to years. The mission of NOAA Climate Test Bed (CTB) is to accelerate research-to-operation (R2O) to improve NCEP operational climate models, monitoring and predictions, and to provide operations-to-research (O2R) support to the climate research community with access to operational models, forecast tools and datasets.

The CTB facility is located at NCEP Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, MD. The NOAA CTB is jointly supported by NCEP, OAR's Weather Program Office, and NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI). The WPO Testbeds program sponsors CTB transition projects through competitive grants, NCEP provides infrastructure support for CTB’s testing and demonstration projects in an operational environment, and NWS/OSTI provides scientific coordination and programmatic support.

The CTB’s current priorities include accelerating enhancements to i) subseasonal to seasonal modeling, ii) Unified Forecast System (UFS) improvements, iii) subseasonal to seasonal forecast tools and products, and iv) climate-quality reanalysis and monitoring.

Matthew Rosencrans
Climate Testbed Director