Climate Risk Areas Initiative News

22 April 2013

MAPP Webinar

The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on December 13, 2011 titled "Madden Julian Oscillation Variability and Prediction".

22 April 2013

MAPP Webinar

The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on November 8, 2011 titled "High Resolution/Regional Climate Modeling".

22 April 2013

MAPP Webinar

The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on October 11, 2011 titled "Advances in Drought Monitoring and Prediction".

MAPP Webinar 16 April 2013

MAPP Webinar

The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on Tuesday, May 7 titled "Intraseasonal to Interannual Prediction".

NOAA-led report: 2012 Central Great Plains 'flash drought' a result of natural variations in weather 9 April 2013

NOAA-led report: 2012 Central Great Plains 'flash drought' a result of natural variations in weather

At its peak last summer, moderate to extreme drought gripped 61 percent of the Lower 48, but a "flash drought" brought exceptionally intense conditions to the Central Great Plains. Today, a new report by the NOAA Drought Task Force and the NOAA-led National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) finds natural variations in weather patterns caused this sudden “flash drought,” and is rules out global ocean conditions, as well as human-induced climate change, as major culprits.

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