·     Exploit the 15 day operational NCEP ensembles

·     Increase the length of the ensembles to 30 days

·     Use multi-model ensembles
·     Exploit the DERF predictability due to initial conditions,
   SST and soil moisture in real time

·     Do routine SST and soil moisture anomaly experiments
   in real time

·     Improve the short-term coupled forecasts by minimizing
growing errors in the initial conditions

·     (Improve the models!)