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The Asian-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC)Climate Center (APCC)/Climate Prediction and its
Application to Society (CliPAS) project was formally established in April 2005 sponsored by APCC. One of the objectives of CliPAS is to develop a well-validated Multi-Model Ensemble (MME)
prediction system and to study the predictability of the seasonal and
sub-seasonal climate variations. Under the current project, CliPAS is a
coordinated research community consisting of 12 institutions and involving a
large group of climate scientists from United States, South Korea, Japan,
China, and Australia. 
The APCC/CliPAS team has strived to address
forefront climate prediction issues through coordinated multi-institutional
retrospective forecast experiments and analysis of 21 models¡¯ two-decade long
hindcast. We advanced our understanding of what can be expected to be
predicted, which is a prerequisite to efforts in climate prediction. We held
two successful workshops and discussed various aspects of the project, which provides a vision for how
APCC evolve into future.
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