Dr. Rice stated that partnerships are fundamental to research surviving everywhere. Dr. Stevenson-Hawk said that all kinds of research must be addressed in an integrated way. Dr. Evans outlined NOAA's Climate Services initiative as an introduction to presentations on NOAA's decadal to centennial change and seasonal and interannual climate forecast presentations of initiatives to follow. He explained the strategy from which the two initiatives were developed. Dr. Livezey explained that the goal is an integrated NOAA Climate Services System Program.
Services come out of the research, observations, and model predictions.
The strategy through FY 2006 is fix what is broken, provide services and conduct research. The 2000 workshops endorsed the FY 2001 COOP rescue initiative and the FY 2002 surface observing system modernization and supported increasing NOAA attention to climate services and stakeholders, but called for more structure. He explained how climate services will be organized within the NWS reorganization and the formation of an OAR Climate Services Program Office. Questions and Discussion Dr. Washington asked if GOOS just a NOAA responsibility. Dr. Livezey said that GOOS is international, with responsibilities shared with other nations.