SAGE is built around four core goals:

• Advance our understanding of how and where sub-seasonal to seasonal forecast information is and can be used to support decision-making.

• Advance our understanding of the skill and uncertainty and their sources in impact relevant sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts.

• Develop methods for incorporating sub-seasonal forecasts and their associated uncertainty into decision-making and evaluating the added benefit of forecast information.

• Develop the community of scientists and practitioners who can advance the use of sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts in decision-making.