Category: Expertise

Mar 7, 2017

US-India Climate Downscaling Workshop

This week, CICS-NC is partnering with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and the Centre for Climate Change Research, both under the Ministry of…

Feb 16, 2017

Assessing Stewardship Maturity of the Global Historical Climatology Network-Monthly (GHCN-M) Dataset

As part of ongoing efforts to advance environmental data stewardship practices, CICS-NC’s Ge Peng and colleagues from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) recently…

Jan 9, 2017

State Climate Summaries Released

The front page of the California State Climate Summary PDF. In response to growing demands for state-level information on the assessment of climate change, NOAA’s…

Oct 26, 2016

New Website

Welcome to the New NCICS Website! Our new site is intended to better meet the needs of everyone visiting the site and to better reflect…

Oct 9, 2016

Deploying Temporary Networks for Upscaling of Sparse Network Stations

Shown above, is the layout of the temporary network of sensors surrounding the USCRN stations at Millbrook, NY (top) and Crossville, TN (bottom). National soil-observation…

Aug 31, 2016

Portfolio: Scientific Data Stewardship

Collecting, curating, and delivering accurate, reliable environmental data sets is a difficult task. But the work doesn’t stop there. Ensuring that data sets are adequately…

Aug 31, 2016

K-12 Outreach: Mountain Science Expo

Laura Stevens and Theresa Stone of NCICS at the Mountain Science Expo, April 2015. As an academic institution, educational outreach is an important component of…

Aug 25, 2016

Seasonal and regional variations in extreme precipitation event frequency using CMIP5

Climate models are central to our ability to predict and adapt to the major long-term weather and climate changes that we are likely to experience…

Aug 5, 2016

Portfolio: Comparing CMIP3 and CMIP5 Climate Simulations

A Technical Report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)  provides important insights into similarities and differences between two generations of model simulations…