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COAPS is the home to one of nine NOAA Applied Research Centers (ARCs). The Applied Research Centers (ARCs) conduct mission oriented applied research and development (R&D) with stable funding under five year renewable Institutional Awards. Each ARC has a unique capability to contribute to at least one of the objectives of the NOAA Climate Dynamics and Experimental Prediction (CDEP) program. The competitive R&D program aims at high priority NOAA and national climate program objectives. Its short-term focus is to develop climate forecast application products through collaborations with users and the applications research community.

The activities of the ARC at COAPS include building a coupled model to predict the intensity of the ATLANTIC hurricane season better than can be done using only statistical approaches. ARC scientists are experimenting with connecting our climate model to crop models to predict crop productivity in addition to physical climate variables. In addition, they are experimenting with new ideas in downscaling to sub-regional climate scales. The ARC plan is to transition any successful results to NOAA for their future forecast activities.

Researchers at the COAPS ARC are also producing in-situ and satellite-based turbulent air-sea flux fields. These FSU Fluxes can be used to force ocean models and for a variety of climate and ocean research. In addition, ARC researchers provide data stewardship for automated marine meteorological observations from research vessels through the Research Vessel Surface Meteorology Data Center and the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) initiative.