The Climate Prediction Program for the Americas (CPPA) merges NOAA's CLIVAR Pan American Climate Studies (PACS) and GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP) into a single integrated competitive research program to improve operational intraseasonal to interannual climate and hydrologic forecasting. To achieve its goal, CPPA supports research to:

• Improve the understanding and model simulation of ocean, atmosphere and land-surface processes through observations, data analysis, and modeling studies
• Determine the predictability of climate variations on intra-seasonal to interannual time scale, including predictability of the continental-scale monsoon systems across the Americas
• Advance NOAA's operational climate forecasts, monitoring, and analysis systems; and
• Develop climate-based hydrologic forecasting capabilities and decision support tools for water resource applications.

   

Further information on CPPA is available in the CPPA Science Plan and Implementation Strategies DRAFT document.