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
This virtual webinar, titled Climate and Infrastructure Funding: A Conversation on Justice Opportunities and Challenges, will bring individuals together from different sectors to identify environmental justice funding and capacity-building resources for disaster resilience when implementing community-led projects.
This work highlights the synoptic conditions that caused the February 2021 South-Central US Arctic outbreak, place it in a climatological perspective, and recommend how climate services can help reduce impacts like this in future freeze events.
Temperature extremes can cause serious health effects in humans. This research aims to further our understanding of the mechanical drivers of such extreme events as well as their temporal patterns, enabling communities to better prepare.
This summer program for undergraduates will contribute to the important goal of workforce development in the field of climate adaptation and resilience.
Using NOAA Tides and Currents data, SCIPP has created a live storm surge tracker to monitor storm surge events at 25 locations across the Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Barry approaches.
SCIPP RISA announces availability of Live Storm Surge Tracker for Tropical Storm Barry Read More »
This recently released report summarizes a multi-agency regional forum on wildfire and a project to learn lessons from unprecedented wildfires in the region during 2016 and 2018.
The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP), a NOAA RISA team, have released a new report on the emergency management response to the May 2013 EF-5 tornado that struck central Oklahoma.
Managing Disaster: A new report on the 2013 Oklahoma Tornado Read More »
The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, a NOAA RISA program, released a new reservoir data visualization tool on October 26, 2015. The tool displays data for reservoirs located in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
SCIPP RISA releases Water Reservoir Data Visualization Tool Read More »
From Southern Florida to Maryland, RISA teams (CISA and SCIPP), Sea Grant programs, and other organizations coordinated a rapid response effort to map coastal flooding during Hurricane Joaquin using a new smartphone app developed by Wetlands Watch.
RISA and Sea Grant team up with states to map flooding during Hurricane Joaquin Read More »
On September 10, 2015, in one of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s weekly speeches about climate, the Senator discussed climate impacts and research in the Gulf of Mexico region and in particular highlighted the research conducted by the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, a NOAA RISA team.
SCIPP RISA highlighted in speech on Senate floor Read More »