Workshop on Societally-Relevant Multi-Year Climate Predictions

• Advance scientific understanding of multi-year predictability
• Characterize physical and dynamical processes in the coupled climate system, including the oceans, land surface, and cryosphere, that can be exploited to improve multi-year forecasts
• Highlight the challenges for producing skillful multi-year predictions with state-of-the-art earth system models
• Construct a framework to identify user requirements for multi-year predictions that will help inform predictability research and model development
• Identify knowledge gaps, determine future research direction and foster new initiatives and collaborations by bringing together research, operational, and applications community
• Assess specific observational needs for improving multi-year predictions that are not currently met
• Identify prototype applications of multi-year forecasts and assess their utility