Description
The Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) program is a competitive research program that seeks to improve understanding of the causes and predictability of variations in the climate system. The program supports an array of diagnostic studies based on observational and model analysis that focuses on the fundamental patterns of climate variability including their coupling to boundary forcing. The time scales of interest range from multiannual-decadal and longer.
CVP has the following scientific objectives:
- To improve our understanding of the causes of climate variability through modeling and diagnostic studies;
- To determine the observed characteristics, underlying mechanisms, and predictability of climate variations on multiannual and longer time scales, and
- To understand the mechanisms for abrupt climate change.
NOAA's CVP program contributes to U.S. (
www.usclivar.org) and International (
www.clivar.org) Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) research.
FY 2010 CVP Information Sheet
