Research Highlights
Jun 2016
Atmospheric Sensitivity to Roughness Length in a Regional Atmospheric Model over the Ohio–Tennessee River Valley
At small scales, the behavior of the atmosphere depends strongly on the characteristics of the land surface, including topography and vegetation types. As a result,…
May 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…
Apr 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 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 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 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 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…
Mar 2016
Innovations in Information Management and Access for Assessments
The Third National Climate Assessment (NCA3), released in May 2014, provided a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change in the United States. The…
Mar 2016
Innovations in Science and Scenarios for Assessment
CICS-NC’s Kenneth Kunkel is the lead author on a paper in Climatic Change describing the climate and sea level rise scenarios that were developed in…
Feb 2016
An Evaluation of HIRS Near-Surface Air Temperature Product in the Arctic with SHEBA Data
In an effort to improve our understanding of how the Arctic climate is changing, scientists from CICS-NC and NOAA are working to develop a new…