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NOAA Climate Program Office’s COM program awards nearly five hundred thousand dollars to improve precipitation datasets

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CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) program is announcing two new two-year projects in Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) that aim to improve the research on precipitation datasets. The competitively selected projects total four hundred seventy-nine thousand dollars in grants1. These precipitation projects, chosen in response to the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (DRSA) of 2022 […]

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NOAA Climate Program Office’s CVP Program Awards $1.8 million to Improve U.S. Precipitation Biases

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CPO’s Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) program is announcing four new two-year projects originally funded in Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) that aim to identify and understand key land-atmosphere processes that influence coupled-model precipitation biases in the Continental United States (CONUS). The competitively selected projects total $1.8 million in grants1. The Earth system has many interacting

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One of the funded Climate Futures projects will enhance our understanding of how extreme snow loads and rain-on-snow events evolve in a changing climate in the contiguous United States.

Biden-Harris Administration awards $7.2 million to improve climate projections of extreme weather through the Investing in America agenda

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Inflation Reduction Act will support NOAA, partner research to advance long-range projections of tropical storms, heat waves, ocean changes

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NOAA Climate Program Office and Partners Support the Newly Released White House National Strategy on Greenhouse Gases

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CPO’s role in co-sponsoring greenhouse gas (GHG) research and convening stakeholders supports the National Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring and Information Service outlines a coordinated, sustained effort to improve GHG data and information across federal agencies.

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NCA5: Drought and Climate Change in 10 Maps

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) represents the latest science in assessing changes in the climate, its national and regional impacts, and options to reduce present and future risk. Every five years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program releases a new National Climate Assessment. The newest assessment, NCA5, is a resource to understand how drought

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Assessing Drought In A Changing Climate

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In a changing climate, the intensity, duration, and frequency of droughts may change. This poses new challenges for drought assessment. To discuss these challenges, the CPO-led National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Climate Hubs co-hosted the Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate Technical Working Meeting on February 28–March

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NOAA Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Workshop Report Defines Priorities and Key Collaborations 

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A report has just been published detailing the accomplishments of the NOAA Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Workshop, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder in April 2023. The Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Team organized this workshop, a group dedicated to advancing cross-OAR and NOAA-wide sea ice modeling activities that is sponsored by CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) and Climate

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SCIPP Deputy Director Participated in White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities

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On September 28, 2023, Mark Shafer, Deputy Director for the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) and Associate Professor in Geography & Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma, participated in the White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities. The Summit, which was announced by President Biden earlier this summer, brought together local, state,

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Ocean Mixing by Tides Impacts Regional Sea Surface Temperatures in the Maritime Continent 

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It is well known that within the Maritime Continent, a meteorological term for the region between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, enhanced water mixing processes from tides cause colder sea surface temperatures. An important question is exactly how much this process contributes to broader ocean and climate conditions. A new study, supported by the Climate

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