The mission of the CTB is to accelerate improvements in high-priority operational sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) monitoring and prediction products. The CTB supports both Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and National Weather Service (NWS) strategic objectives.

For OAR, these include:

For the NWS, these include:

The CTB facility is located at NCEP Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, MD. The NOAA CTB is jointly supported by NCEP, OAR's Weather Program Office, and NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration (OSTI). The WPO Testbeds program sponsors CTB transition projects through competitive grants, NCEP provides infrastructure support for CTB’s testing and demonstration projects in an operational environment, and NWS/OSTI provides scientific coordination and programmatic support.

The CTB’s current priorities include accelerating enhancements to i) subseasonal to seasonal modeling, ii) Unified Forecast System (UFS) improvements, iii) subseasonal to seasonal forecast tools and products, and iv) climate-quality reanalysis and monitoring.

Matthew Rosencrans
Climate Testbed Director