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Accurate, consistent, and homogenous data are critical for understanding the current climatology of tropical cyclones and identifying any trends in these storms in a changing…

A new weather station on the campus of Isothermal Community College in Spindale, NC, fills a critical gap in data coverage for southwestern North Carolina.…

The White House released the third National Climate Assessment today. Mandated at least every four years by the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the…

The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) is a network of climate monitoring stations maintained and operated by NOAA to provide climate-science-quality measurements of air temperature…

Tropical cyclones (TCs) constitute one of the major natural disasters around the world as well as an important source of fresh water over areas prone…

To help U. S. businesses better adapt to the numerous challenges and opportunities resulting from a changing weather and climate, the Cooperative Institute for Climate…

Asheville, North Carolina – Working with over 4,000 citizen scientists from all over the world, the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites – North Carolina…

With the substantial change in the Arctic sea ice and associated impacts of the change in weather and climate system, ecosystems, and coastal communities, it…

Meteorological satellites operating in geostationary orbits around the Earth (Fig. 1) provide us with observations of the Earth’s surface and clouds since the early 1970’s.…

The best precipitation dataset in current production in the US provides data every one to three hours, on a scale of roughly 4 km (one…