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 successful community science campaign leveraged NOAA leadership and scientific rigor with the additional organization of local community and government groups to compile a heat dataset that can be used to minimize extreme heat risk in cities across the country.
2020 Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign Successfully Finishes Read More »
The symposium will help determine how NOAA’s climate, weather and environmental information can be usefully applied to and better serve the health community in predicting and managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
This summer, citizen scientists will map hot spots, known as “urban heat islands,” in 13 cities across the country to help communities identify areas where they can take action to protect people from heat stress.
NOAA leads community scientists in mapping hottest parts of 13 U.S. cities this summer Read More »
The webinar will take place on February 5 from 10am to 11am EST and will cover methods for mapping urban heat, results from past campaigns, and lessons learned over the 20 different urban field campaigns conducted since 2015.
To reduce the risk of heat illness that arrives with hot days, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) encourages municipalities to gather data and produce a map of their community’s hottest neighborhoods. Pending availability of federal funds, NIHHIS intends to provide financial support to 20 cities where groups are willing to organize and run volunteer mapping campaigns, and then engage municipal leaders in addressing their issues of urban heat. The application for funding is now available.
Application for 2020 Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns now available Read More »
The product will help scientists identify whether an extreme heat event tomorrow is significant or actually “extreme” relative to the historical record. It may also help assess extreme heat impacts on sectors like agriculture, health, and energy.
The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) Heat Health and Social Vulnerability tool will be demonstrated as part of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Town Hall in Philadelphia, PA on 3 November 2019. At the event, this NIHHIS application, which was developed in partnership with Esri, CDC, and NOAA, will be used as part of a scenario-based demonstration allowing attendees to learn how to apply downscaled climate projections and census-tract level social vulnerability information to understand where at-risk populations may reside, and specifically what risk factors can be targeted with interventions.
Abstracts due 2 December 2020
18th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW) – April 14-16, 2020
Phoenix, Arizona
www.cpasw2020.com
Integrated theme: “Providing Services for the Cascading Effects of Intensifying Heat in a Rapidly Growing Region”
The 18th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop (CPASW) will bring together a diverse community to share developments in research and application of weather and climate information for societal decision-making. Participants will include researchers, service producers, resource managers, planners, practitioners, social scientists, and others making weather and climate-sensitive decisions. NOAA’s National Weather Service Climate Services Branch, Arizona State University, the Arizona State Climate Office, and many climate services partners are collaborating in the organization of the 2020 CPASW.
Women from states in the U.S. Southeast have the highest rates of premature deliveries in the country. Extreme heat plays a role.
Extreme heat increases pregnant women’s risk of pre-term delivery Read More »
CPO’s Hunter Jones will attend to build NOAA and NIHHIS international partnership through the Global Heat Health Information Network.