Climate Services Professional Development Series

PCU 1: Know the Infrastructure for Climate Data and Services

PCU 2: Understand Climate Variability and Change and Apply to Local Services

PCU 3: Understand the Basis and Methodologies of CPC Products

PCU 4: Use NOAA Climate Products and Tools in Local Climate Services

PCU 5: Apply Climate Information to Decision Support, Partnership, and Communication

PCU 6: Understand Principles for Conducting Timely, Accurate, and Consistent Climate Data Observations and the Broad Range of Their Applications

Residence Training:

Operational Climate Services

Climate Variability

Advanced Climate Variability

Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) IDSS

PCU 4: Use NOAA Climate Products and Tools in Local Climate Services Producer: Andrea Bair, NWS Western Region Headquarters and Jenna Meyers, AFS Climate Services Training need: NWS staff use available NOAA climate products and tools, add local context, and communicate the information to local partners, stakeholders, and users.

Training objective: NWS staff must extend their knowledge of NOAA climate products, tools, and services in order to provide locally-tailored products, services, and studies.

Specific Job Task Skills and Knowledge:

Link current weather conditions with ongoing climate variability events
Deliver NWS climate forecast products to local users
Become an expert in local impacts of climate variability and change
Add local value to areas with low seasonal outlook skill

PCU 4 Instructional Components:

Please note, updated modules for each instructional component are in development.
Links will be added as they become available.

Instructional Component 4.1: Local Climatology (Residence Training on Climate Variability)

xmACIS

Training Module (Web Version | CLC Version)

Local Climate Normals and Methods of Their Computation
NCEI Tools for Local Climatology Products

Instructional Component 4.2: Local Climate Studies

Online training modules on Local Climatology Analysis Tool (LCAT) data, methods, and applications

LCAT Data:

Training Module (CLC Version)

LCAT Methods:

Decadal Trends

Training Module (CLC Version)

Climate Variability Impacts

Training Module (CLC Version)

Correlation Studies

NOAA Tools for Climate Variability Teleconnections

Instructional Components 4.3: Linking Weather and Climate Events

Communicating Subseasonal to Seasonal Impacts: Climate-Weather Interactions

Training Module (MetEd Version | CLC Version)

Process for Linking Current Weather Conditions with Ongoing Climate Variability Events
Adding local value to areas with low seasonal outlook skill- under development with CPC experts