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
Since 2017, NOAA (Office of Education, Climate Program Office, National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS)) has funded CAPA Heat Watch to support 60+ communities across the United States in mapping their urban heat islands (UHI).
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This tool combines the new White House Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, which identifies communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution, and the NIHHIS Urban Heat Island mapping data to enable investigation of how disadvantaged communities are exposed to higher temperatures due to the urban heat island effect.
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This demo shows NOAA’s future heat events by overlaying NOAA projected heat events and CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), which uses U.S. Census data to determine the social vulnerability of every county.
Heat & Health Tracker | Tracking | NCEH | CDC Read More »
Drought can cause significant human health outcomes that can challenge public health departments, emergency managers, and healthcare providers.
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Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ), a joint venture led by NOAA and NASA, provides comprehensive observations to investigate the impact on air quality and climate from wildfires and agricultural fires across the continental United States.
UWFPS is a cutting-edge research project that began as a 2017 pilot study with the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), the Utah Division of Air Quality (UDAQ), and other essential partnering universities and government agencies aiming to identify the chemical processes responsible for PM2.5 formation in northern Utah.
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A multi-organization team of scientists led by Dr. Assaf Anyamba of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center recently combined knowledge on various diseases with seasonal El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) predictions to issue early warnings for possible disease outbreaks throughout the globe. Proving to be effectively accurate during the great 2015-16 El Niño, NOAA’s seasonal ENSO forecasts and environmental monitoring expertise are crucial to effective early warning systems for emerging infectious diseases.
Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a deadly mosquito-borne disease affecting human populations and valuable African livestock.
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The visualization featured on this page showcases the relationship between the increase in vegetation and outbreaks of Rift Valley fever (RVF) over the Middle East and the African continent from 2000 to 2018.
NOAA’s Science On a Sphere® uses computers and projectors to display visualizations of planetary data on a sphere, analogous to a giant, animated globe.
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