The NCS should adopt sound procedures for routine monitoring of the services it provides to assess success and failure and to create a reliable process of learning from its own experience. It is far from trivial to create such function but it is essential, particularly in the first years of its operation. Such process could be develop in consultation with academia and with existing climate service provides in the public sector (for example the NOAA RISA units, the IRI) or private sector (consulting firms).

Providing climate services is relatively new endeavor and while some experience already exist in the US there has not been a systematic effort to analyze the effectiveness of such services. Improving and perfecting the process of providing climate services requires learning from past experience.