Category: Expertise: Climate Science
Xiangdong Zhang
National Climate Assessment
Dr. Xiangdong Zhang is a senior scientist at NCICS and a research professor at the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State…
Sep 27, 2022
Billion-Dollar Disasters Are Happening More Often
Climate and weather events cause billions of dollars of economic damages every year in the United States. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Billion-Dollar…
May 10, 2022
Projecting Changes in Heavy Precipitation for Infrastructure Design
New design values for the intensity, duration, and frequency of heavy precipitation account for the projected effects of climate change. An interactive website provides easy…
Nov 8, 2021
NOAA NESDIS Outstanding Science and Research Team Member Award
Congratulations to NCICS’s Jonathan Brannock, Ronnie Leeper, Olivier Prat, and Scott Wilkins, who were recognized as members of the 2021 Outstanding Science and Research Team…
Sep 28, 2021
Sea Level Rise at the Intersection of Race and Poverty in the Carolinas
Low-income and Black communities in the coastal Carolinas are already experiencing the effects of sea level rise, and these communities will continue to be disproportionately…
May 5, 2021
Exploring the New (Climate) Normal
NCICS’s Jared Rennie is exploring what NOAA NCEI’s new U.S. Climate Normals reveal about how our climate is changing across the United States. On May…
Jul 7, 2020
Quantifying the Relationship Between Extreme Precipitation and Atmospheric Water Vapor
New research quantifies the relative contributions of two key factors that drive extreme precipitation events—atmospheric water vapor and upward velocity—across the continental United States. The…
Mar 11, 2020
The North Carolina Climate Science Report
The North Carolina Climate Science Report Today, NCICS released the North Carolina Climate Science Report, a scientific assessment of historical climate trends and potential future…
Feb 19, 2020
North Carolina Climate Science Report
About the Report The North Carolina Climate Science Report (NCCSR) is a scientific assessment of historical climate trends and potential future climate change in North…
Dec 19, 2019
Using a Neural Network to Detect Weather Fronts
NCICS researchers Jim Biard and Kenneth Kunkel have developed a deep learning neural network tool called DL-FRONT that automatically identifies weather fronts in datasets of…