Category: Expertise: Climate Science
Laura Stevens
National Climate Assessment science support
Laura Stevens provides primary scientific and technical expertise for NOAA and the National Climate Assessment (NCA). This includes the development of climate data analysis products,…
Kenneth Kunkel
National Climate Assessment, Climate Extremes Research
Dr. Kenneth Kunkel joined NCICS as a Senior Scientist and Lead Scientist for Assessments, and the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North…
Otis Brown
Climate Policy, Engagement, Resilience, Satellite Remote Sensing
Dr. Otis Brown is the founding Director of NCICS, where he also serves as the Director of the North Carolina location of NOAA’s Cooperative Institute…
May 19, 2016
SERDP
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense’s environmental science and technology program.…
May 19, 2016
Expertise: Climate Science
Climate Science Climate Dynamics Climate Drivers Atmospheric Science Meteorology Extremes Search “Climate Science” Scenarios and Projections Climate Change Model Downscaling National and Regional-Scale Projections State-by-state…
May 10, 2016
Building Climate Change Resilience
On May 10, the White House hosted a conference on resilient building codes. Climate scientist Ken Kunkel of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites–North…
Apr 15, 2016
The Relationship between the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Southeastern New England Snowfall
Between January 24 and February 15, 2015, an incredible 90.2 inches of snow fell at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. Although snowfalls of this magnitude…
Mar 14, 2016
Detection and Attribution of Climate Extremes in the Observed Record
Kenneth Kunkel and Liqiang Sun of CICS-NC are coauthors on a paper that provides an overview of the science of detecting changes in climate extremes…
Dec 18, 2015
Kelvin Waves and Tropical Cyclogenesis: A Global Survey
A new study by Carl Schreck III of the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies and North Carolina State University provides important insights into the…
Dec 14, 2015
Global Land Surface Extremes of Precipitation
In an article published in the Journal of Extreme Events, CICS-NC’s Kenneth Kunkel and Rebekah Frankson analyze trends in heavy precipitation events and their relationships…