China - Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) - Work Package 4 - Met Office Collaborative climate science research programme between China and UK focused on climate model development and climate prediction systems.  Research into near term climate projections in China and projections of 21st century hydrological change in China aims to enable better business planning and help inform climate adaptation choices. Develop a methodology to define an ensemble of model variants capable of providing a set of state-of-the-art realisations of climate variability and change for 5-40 years ahead.
Understand the potential predictability of East Asian climate variability and change out to a decade ahead, and develop understanding of the capabilities and limitations of initialised predictions available from CMIP multi-model ensembles. 
Develop methods to derive credible information from CMIP multi-model climate model scenarios of future climate variability and change in East Asia during the 21st century, suitable for decision making and impacts analysis.
Accelerate the development of climate models with a range of complexities to inform climate projections.