NOAA CPO: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office
Support from NOAA CPO has benefited various GFDL researchers in their pursuit of increasing the scientific understanding of climate variability and change, with a focus on advancing the computer modeling of climate across a wide range of time scales. Three instances of ESD Team projects supported in part by NOAA CPO are listed here.

    In 2022, the GFDL ESD Team began work on a project that has some funding support from NOAA CPO to examine the use of bias corrected and statistically downscaled climate projections in heat and human health studies of interest to CPO’s Extreme Heat Risk Area Team and the interagency National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) program. The project’s initial focus has been on the northeastern United States, with an emphasis on the urban heat island of Philadelphia.  For more information, see our Downscaled Climate Projections for Heat & Health Applications Project Page.
Starting in 2023, our team is receiving support to work with NOAA CPO’s Communication, Education and Engagement Division and colleagues at Cornell University on a Consumer Report’s like evaluation of CMIP6-era statistically downscaled climate products used by many government, NGO, and private sector to inform decision-making. Our research results will be translated into forms suitable for communication to stakeholders as part of an interagency initiative known as the Climate Resilience Information System (CRIS).

    Earlier, when our team was first formed, support of the unfortunately short-lived NCPP (see section below) by the NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) program benefited our statistical downscaling efforts.

ESTCP: DoD Environmental Security Technology Certification Program
In late 2023, the NOAA-GFDL ESD team began a three year, multi-institutional project funded by DOD ESTCP.  The project’s title is Fit for Purpose? An Integrative Assessment of State-of-the-Science Downscaling Methods for DoD Infrastructure Planning. under the topic “Climate Model Comparative Assessment for DoD Infrastructure Applications.” [Link to announcement of selection]. The GFDL ESD Team will be partnering with researchers from NCAR’s computation hydrology team, Cornell University, and Mitre Corporation.
APRIL-MAY 2024: Postdoc Postion Announcement: see https://ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_Careers/details/CPAESS-Postdoctoral-Researcher_REQ-2024-89-2

SC CASC: South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Established in 2012, the South Central Climate Science Adaptation Center (SC CASC, formerly SC CSC) is one of eight regional centers created by the US Department of the Interior and managed through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC). NOAA GFDL was one of seven institutions that together comprised the Consortium of the SC CSC for the first seven years of the program. The Consortium provides scientific information, tools, and techniques that resource managers and others can use to translate science into management decisions. Much of GFDL’s SC CSC-related efforts focused on statistical downscaling topics, in collaboration with colleagues at Texas Tech University (TTU) and the University of Oklahoma (OU).  Our participation in the SC CASC ended in 2019.