NCICS News
Jun 6, 2017
Eclipse Viewability Map
On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will sweep across the continental United States, starting in the Pacific Northwest at around 9am Pacific Daylight…
May 8, 2017
Meet the Staff: Andrew Ballinger
By Andrew Dundas Andrew Ballinger, a postdoctoral research scholar at NCICS, grew up on a dairy farm outside of Melbourne, Australia. He partly attributes his…
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…
Feb 6, 2017
Meet the Staff: Jim Biard
By Andrew Dundas “Well, I’ll never match my dad,” laughed Jim Biard, one of our research scholars at NCICS, in reaction to my inquiry on…
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…
Nov 2, 2016
On the Link between Tropical Cyclones and Daily Rainfall Extremes Derived from Global Satellite Observations
Understanding the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in relation to tropical cyclones is critical to the development of infrastructure in affected areas. Authors…
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 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…