NOAA's Climate Diagnostics Center
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CDC develops national capabilities to analyze, interpret, and forecast important climate variations on time scales ranging from a few weeks to centuries. Short-term climate variations of interest include major droughts and floods over the continental U.S. and the global anomalies associated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). These events attract great public interest and often have enormous social and economic consequences. On longer time scales, basic research goals include identifying the causes of decadal to centennial climate variations and separating natural variability from human-induced climate changes to provide an improved scientific basis for planning and decision-making. CDC also performs extensive intercomparisons of observational and climate model data, an activity vital to improving current research and prediction models.
Related Topics: Influence on climate
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