NCICS News
Jun 20, 2016
Measure Locally, Respond Globally—A Conference for Journalists
Journalists covering the environment, science, data analytics, and related fields are invited to attend “Measure Locally, Respond Globally,” a two-day conference taking place on August…
Jun 14, 2016
Trends and Extremes in Northern Hemisphere Snow Characteristics
A new study by CICS-NCs Kenneth Kunkel, Sarah Champion, and Rebekah Frankson, along with co-authors from Rutgers University and ERT Inc., establishes the current state…
Jun 9, 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 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 27, 2016
Two NCICS/CICS-NC ORIED Award Nominees for 2016
Each year, the colleges and business units of North Carolina State University recognize significant accomplishments and contributions of their staff members through the University’s Awards…
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…