Digging Deeper Into Flash Droughts
Identifying rapidly evolving and severe “flash drought’ conditions is especially useful for mitigating crop losses, monitor vegetation health, and provide crucial information for increased fire risk.
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MAPP Webinar Series: Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction
The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on the topic of Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction on Tuesday, June 9, 2015. The announcement is provided below; you are invited to remotely join the session.
New Satellite Cloud Datasets Produced
With partial funding from CPO’s Climate Monitoring Division, Researchers at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography have published new research applying important “corrections” to two widely-used, long term satellite cloud data records (The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) dataset and the Pathfinder Atmospheres–Extended (PATMOS-x) dataset).
CPO invests $2.9 million to support advances in climate monitoring
NOAA’s Climate Program Office’s (CPO) Climate Observation and Monitoring Division has awarded over $2.9 million this year to support 10 new multi-year projects to develop innovative strategies and new information products to help better detect, monitor, and understand climate variability and change.
A framework for dynamical seasonal prediction of precipitation over the Pacific Islands
Research funded by CPO’s Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Climate.
MAPP Webinar Series: Drought Research: Improved Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction of Drought
The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program will host a webinar on the topic of Drought Research: Improved Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction of Drought on Friday, May 30. The announcement is provided below; you are invited to remotely join the session.
NOAA sponsors workshop to develop plans for an improved Ocean Observing system for the Tropical Pacific
NOAA sponsored the Tropical Pacific Observing System-2020 (or TPOS-2020) workshop Jan. 27-30 at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. CPO’s David Legler and Sidney Thurston joined more than 60 international scientists in discussions of the future observing needs and strategies for this important region of the world.
NIDIS leads monitoring workshop
The National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring System workshop, led by the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), was held on Nov. 13-14 in Kansas City, MO.
Webinar: How community-based surveys inform climate change adaptation in Alaska
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) RISA has its next webinar scheduled for Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. AKDT (2 p.m. EST).
NOAA-funded report highlights threat of climate change to estuaries
The nation’s 28 National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR) are experiencing the negative effects of human and climate-related stressors, according to a new research report funded by NOAA’s Climate Program Office from the National Ocean Service.