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1. Tropical Cyclone tracks in present and future climates
PIs: Suzana J. Camargo (PI), Timothy M. Hall (Co-PI), Adam H. Sobel (Co-PI)
2. Central U.S. abnormality in climate change and its response to global warming
PIs: Zaitao Pan (PI) and Timothy Eicher (Co-PI)
3. Quantification and reduction of uncertainties in projections of climate impacts on drought and agriculture for North America
PIs: Justin Sheffield (PI), David Lobell (Co-PI)
4. Observational constraints, diagnosis and physical pathways for precipitation and extreme event processes in next-generation global climate models
PIs: J. David Neelin (PI)
5. Towards improving convection parameterization and the MJO in next-generation climate models
PIs: Stefan Tulich (Lead PI), Julio Bacmeister (Co-PI), William Putman (Co-PI), Max Suarez (Co-PI), Ming Zhao (Co-PI)
6. Understanding the Emerging Central-Pacific ENSO and Its Impacts on North American Climate
PIs: Jin-Yi Yu
7. Prediction, Validation, and Calibration of Coastal Storms and Associated High Impact Weather in Ensemble Regional Climate Simulations over the Northeast U.S.
PIs: Brian A. Colle, Minghua Zhang, Sultan Hameed, Edmund Chang, and Ping Liu
8. In-depth Regional Process-level Analyses of NARCCAP and AR5 simulations over North America: Towards Establishing Differential Credibility of Regional Climate
PIs: Anji Seth (PI), Linda O. Mearns (PI), Melissa Bukovsky (Co-PI), and David Gochis (Co-PI)
9. Nonlinearity of the Tropical Convection and the Asymmetry of the El Nino Southern Oscillation
PIs: Tao Zhang (PI), De-Zheng Sun (Co-PI)
10. Development of an Adaptive Vertical Grid Scheme for Large Scale Models
PIs: Roger Marchand
11. Development of a Prototype High Resolution Prediction System for Precipitation, Soil Moisture and Stream Flow over North America
PIs: S. Schubert, H. Wang, R. Koster, M. Suarez, and K. Mo
12. Assimilating Soil Moisture and Snow Products for Improved Drought Monitoring with the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS)
PIs: Christa D. Peters-Lidard (PI), David Mocko (Co-PI), Sujay Kumar (I), Michael Ek (I), Youlong Xia (I), and Jiarui Dong (I)
13. Dual Assimilation of Microwave and Thermal-Infrared Satellite Observations of Soil Moisture into NLDAS for Improved Drought Monitoring
PIs: X. Zhan (PI), M.C. Anderson (Co-PI), C Hain, M. Ek, M. Svoboda, B. Wardlow, W. Crow, J.R. Mecikalski, W.P. Kustas
14. Improving seasonal drought predictions in the western USA: Developing and evaluating an ensemble snow modeling framework in the Community Hydrologic Prediction System (CHPS)
PIs: Martyn Clark, Andrew Slater, Andrew Wood, Thomas Hopson, Ethan Guttmann
15. Integrating Data Assimilation and Multi-modeling Within CHPS for Improved Seasonal Drought Prediction
PIs: Hamid Moradkhani (PI), Andrew Wood (Collaborator), Donald Laurine (Collaborator)
16. Assessing the quality of synoptic scale variability derived from the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project
PIs: Edmund Kar-Man Chang
17. Regional and global evaluation of the CFS-R and 20th Century Reanalysis for the terrestrial water cycle
PIs: Eric F Wood (PI)
18. Evaluating Dynamical States, Radiation Budgets, and Cloud Properties in the NCEP CFS-R and ECMWF ERA Interim Output
PIs: Thomas P. Ackerman and Laura M. Hinkelman
19. Using Historical Surface Data to Verify the Twentieth Century Reanalysis for Oceanographic Applications
PIs: James A. Carton and Semyon A. Grodsky
20. Evaluation of Reanalysis Products in the Arctic
PIs: Ronald W. Lindsay (PI)
21. Comparison of Structure and Evolution Characteristics of Boreal Summer and Winter Intraseasonal Oscillations Derived from Reanalysis Products and Satellite observations
PIs: Tim Li (PI), Xianan Jiang (Co-PI)
22. Evaluate Recently Developed Reanalysis Projects
PIs: Chidong Zhang (PI)
23. Climatology and variability of tropical rainfall in the 20th Century Reanalysis
PIs: Michela Biasutti and Mingfang Ting
24. Implementation of the Noah land surface model upgrades in the NCEP Climate Forecast System
PIs: Michael Ek, (Co-PI), Jesse Meng (Co-PI), Rongqian Yang (Co-I)
25. Enhancement of high resolution hydrological modeling on the CONUS HRAP grid using operational NOAA NCEP and NOAA OHD models
PIs: Brian A. Cosgrove (PI), Jiarui Dong (PI), Michael Ek (Co-I), and Kingtse Mo (Co-I)
26. Improving land evaporative processes and land-atmosphere interactions in the NCEP Global Forecast System (GFS) and Climate Forecast System (CFS)
PIs: Eric Wood (PI), Michael Ek (Co-PI), and Justin Sheffield (Co-I)
27. NOAA Climate Test Bed (CTB) National Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) Prediction System Phase-1 NMME Implementation Plan
PIs: NMME Coordinating Lead Contacts: J. Huang, B. Kirtman
Phase-I NMME Partners: S. Saha, G. White, H. van den Dool, J. Huang, B. Kirtman, J. Kinter, K. Pegion, S. Schubert, D. DeWitt, M. Tippett, and A. Rosati