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
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.
Digging Deeper Into Flash Droughts Read More »
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.
MAPP Webinar Series: Drought Understanding, Monitoring, and Prediction Read More »
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).
New Satellite Cloud Datasets Produced Read More »
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.
CPO invests $2.9 million to support advances in climate monitoring Read More »
Research funded by CPO’s Modeling, Analysis, Prediction, and Projections (MAPP) program was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Climate.
A framework for dynamical seasonal prediction of precipitation over the Pacific Islands Read More »
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 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.
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.
NIDIS leads monitoring workshop Read More »
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).
Webinar: How community-based surveys inform climate change adaptation in Alaska Read More »
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.
NOAA-funded report highlights threat of climate change to estuaries Read More »