Upcoming webinar: Socio Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the Great Lakes
This webinar is the second in a two-part series that explores relevant climate research topics in the realm of Earth system science and modeling and societal interactions.
December 2019
Upcoming Workshop on Building Knowledge about the Intersections of Public Health Issues, Hurricanes, and Heat
A team of researchers supported by CPO’s International Research and Applications Project (IRAP) will convene the one-day workshop in Puerto Rico in February 2020.
New CPO-funded national database of CO₂ transportation emissions now available for download
Accessible via the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, the database provides the most detailed estimates available of where CO₂ is emitted from within the transportation sector and will help scientists and decision makers track how CO₂ emissions are changing over time and across U.S. cities.
Headwaters Economics and Great Lakes RISA team release report on using economics to support climate adaptation
The new report includes strategies, methods, and case studies of cities that have used economic data and methods to advance climate adaptation programs.
Anthropogenic climate change “overwhelmingly likely contributor” to 2018 record low Bering Sea ice extent
Led by Rick Thoman (Climate Specialist with CPO’s Alaska RISA), the authors found that with ongoing global warming, such low levels like the 2018 extent could be typical by the 2040s.
NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoc Program alumna awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal
The Macelwane Medal is awarded annually to three to five early career scientists in recognition of their significant contributions to Earth and space science. Meet this year’s winner: Emily Fischer, Associate Professor at Colorado State University.
Preparing for extreme sea levels is different depending on location and time, new study finds
Using historical data from tide gauges that line U.S. coasts, researchers funded by CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring Program created an extreme sea level indicator that identifies how much of a role different major weather and ocean forces have played in affecting extreme sea levels in coastal areas around the country.
Bridging the Weather-Climate Prediction Skill Gap with a Multi-Model Experiment
Researchers have for years been working to tackle the subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction problem to improve forecasts. The Subseasonal Experiment, SubX, is an interagency research-to-operations project designed to help tackle this problem. The results of the project were recently published in BAMS.
SCIPP RISA Deputy Director Wins National Route Fifty Tech Innovator Award for Simple Planning Tool
The SPT is a compilation of relatively easy-to-use online interactive tools, maps, and graphs that helps cut through the internet clutter and points to relatively simple data tools. SCIPP also recently received an award from the American Planning Association Oklahoma Chapter for this tool.
New model for predicting nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils
Agricultural activities are the main source of nitrous oxide emissions from human activities, but there is limited attention to agriculture as a major contributor to increasing emissions likely from a lack of understanding of mechanisms controlling nitrous oxide emissions.