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
The webinar will explore some of the opportunities and challenges for addressing flooding and stormwater management in communities surrounding the Great Lakes.
Upcoming webinar: Great Lakes Water Levels and Stormwater Management Read More »
These discussions are an early step in achieving the goal of increased connectivity between NOAA Research capabilities and sanctuary climate information needs under CPO’s Marine Ecosystems Risk Team (MERT) initiative.
NOAA Research’s Climate Program Office (CPO) is pleased to announce that its Fiscal Year 2021 grant competitions are now open.
NOAA’s Climate Program Office Announces New Funding Opportunity Read More »
Small to Medium sized water utilities are learning about NOAA products to better plan for future weather and climate events.
As NOAA promotes green and natural infrastructure, it is helpful to understand the specific arrangements that provide co-benefits to communities.
The Initiative aims to create more cohesion across CPO’s climate and decision science programs, while strengthening partnerships inside and outside of NOAA, to ultimately help advance climate science understanding and reduce impacts in a set of four climate-related risk areas.
NOAA’s Climate Program Office launches Climate Risk Areas Initiative Read More »
The effects of climate variability and change pose numerous threats to America’s agricultural industry, much of which is located in the southeastern United States.
Climate risks pose a particular set of challenges to electrical utilities, who must manage the direct impacts of climate and weather, in addition to considering how related effects might propagate through networks of interconnected social and environmental risks.
Since 2011, Suicide Basin—a partly glacierized basin of the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska—has released annual glacier lake outburst floods, called Jökulhlaups by icelanders and glaciologists, which cause flooding and erosion that endanger lives and damage nearby homes and infrastructure.
Living Dangerously Cool with Jökulhlaups (yo-KOOL-lahps) Read More »
A new article published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society aims to improve the accessibility and usability of climate models to climate researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers.