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Assessments Technical Support Unit

4th National Climate Assessment

State Climate Summaries

Climate Data Records

Tropical Monitoring Tool

Artic Sea Ice Trends and Projections

Observational Data for Climate Studies

Advancing Environment Data Stewardship

Big Data Project

GOES Satellite Data in the Cloud

Assessing Data Stewardship Maturity

International Data Stewardship Standards

Sub-Monthly Climate Monitoring

US Airforce Projects

Resilience and Sustainability

India Partnership for Climate Resiliency

Outreach and Engagement

Trends March 2019

The latest issue of our Trends newsletter recaps one of the busiest and most productive years in the Institute’s history. In addition to an overview from Director Otis Brown, this issue includes a focus on tropical cyclone research and data stewardship activities and stories on our ongoing support for building climate resilience in India and using a Climate Data Record to understand a changing Arctic. You can read about how we helped build a new data ingest pipeline at NCEI and what our resident pilot discovered about changing aviation weather patterns. Finally, this issue also explores the breadth and depth of our support for the Fourth National Climate Assessment and related activities.

March 2019 Trends

Cover image of March 2019 issue of Trends newsletter

NEWS

Scott Stevens on The Weather Channel’s AMHQ

On April 30, 2019, Scott Stevens appeared live on the AMHQ program on The Weather Channel, speaking with Jim Cantore […]

photo of cars on wet road at nighttime

Precipitation and Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes

New research reveals that the overall risk of a fatal car crash increases by about 34% during precipitation events in […]

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Seasonal and Regional Changes in Arctic Sea Ice

Two recent papers by a team of authors, including CICS-NC’s Ge Peng, explore the changing seasonality and regional variability of […]

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