Category: Expertise
May 19, 2016
Expertise: Observing Systems
In Situ Observations Quality Assurance Algorithm Development Data Validation Global Temperature Datasets Soil Moisture and Drought U.S. Climate Reference Network Remote Sensing Calibration and Validation…
May 19, 2016
Expertise: Climate Science
Climate Science Climate Dynamics Climate Drivers Atmospheric Science Meteorology Extremes Scenarios and Projections Climate Change Model Downscaling National and Regional-Scale Projections State-by-state Projections Derived Variables…
May 14, 2016
Scientific Stewardship in the Open Data and Big Data Era - Roles and Responsibilities
As the volume of environmental data expands exponentially, and as the ways data are preserved and delivered evolve rapidly, organizations charged with managing these datasets…
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…
Apr 4, 2016
Assessing Climate Change and Human Health
On April 4, 2016, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a report titled The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health…
Apr 1, 2016
Assessment and Implications of NCEP Stage IV Quantitative Precipitation Estimates for Product Intercomparisons
Olivier Prat of CICS-NC is a contributing author on a paper in Weather and Forecasting that explores and assesses the stage IV quantitative precipitation estimates…
Mar 25, 2016
Algorithm Development of Temperature and Humidity Profile Retrievals for Long-Term HIRS Observations
CICS-NC’s Jessica Matthews is a coauthor on a paper in Remote Sensing describing an algorithm for deriving vertical temperature and humidity profiles from the High-resolution…
Mar 22, 2016
A 30+ Year AVHRR LAI and FAPAR Climate Data Record: Algorithm Description and Validation
CICS-NC’s Jessica Matthews contributed to a paper in Remote Sensing that describes the development of an important new global vegetation data set. This new NOAA…
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…