Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
A report of the Sustainable Urban Coasts in the Urban Northeast workshop, hosted in October 2014 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, was published online by Local Environment.
Workshop findings: sustainability challenges for northeastern urban coasts Read More »
NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) has awarded $44.34 million for 73 new projects designed to help advance the understanding, modeling, and prediction of Earth’s climate system and to foster effective decision making.
The Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) launched its new website at PIRCA.org.
Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment launches new website Read More »
A CPO-funded study was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, showing an abrupt sea level rise in the northern Indian Ocean since 2003.
Sea level in Indian Ocean shows abrupt rise, new study says Read More »
The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on the topic of Unified Weather-Climate Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities on Thursday, September 29, 2016. The announcement is provided below.
MAPP Webinar Series: Unified Weather-Climate Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities Read More »
This webinar will orient coastal managers to taking advantage of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides a consistent means of acquiring insurance against flooding from storm surge, precipitation, and other sources.
A study recently published in Environmental Research Letters shows that a new modeling approach significantly increases skill for precipitation and temperature predictions, particularly extremes.
NOAA-funded study finds new modeling approach significantly improves forecast skill Read More »
Otkin is an Associate Scientist at the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has been developing an early warning system for “flash droughts.” NOAA recently released this product online for the public in June 2016.
Jason Otkin: Predicting rapidly-developing droughts based on plant stress Read More »
Farmers, ranchers, and water resource managers will now have more time to prepare for potentially damaging drought conditions thanks to a new early warning product now available online.
New NOAA product improves early warning of drought Read More »
CPO-funded research analyzing the implications of ocean mesoscale eddies and the atmosphere for western boundary currents was published in Nature.
Ocean eddies and the atmosphere regulate western boundary currents, study says Read More »