Objectives include improving our capacity to use climate and other models to evaluate the potential implications of different strategies and technologies (including those identified by the National Climate Change Technology Initiative), and accelerating the transition of scientific knowledge to applications in resource management, disaster preparedness, planning, and assessment. Data from observations and monitoring programs will be carefully harnessed and applied to take advantage of information on current conditions and recent trends. In some applications, this current information will be coupled with emerging skills to project climate on seasonal timescales. An even more challenging goal is extending applications to take advantage of decadal and longer-term projections of climate as these improve. These efforts will develop pilot activities that demonstrate both the strengths and limitations of current knowledge. They will include careful descriptions of scientific uncertainties that are meaningful to those using the information.