Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 1551-1554, doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2916.1
Comment to "Towards seamless prediction: Calibration of climate-change projections using seasonal forecasts"
Tim N. Palmer, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, Antje Weisheimer and Mark Rodwell
ECMWF, Shinfield Park
RG2 9AX, Reading, UK
We need better computational infrastructures to improve the models, but this may take time; regional governments need information to assess how to adapt to inevitable climate change now! We believe it would be irresponsible not to take account of all possible information in providing such advice. In P08 we make one quantitative suggestion in this direction.