NCICS News
Jul 16, 2015
Extending the Soil Moisture Record
Long-term data on soil moisture can be invaluable for making decisions about agricultural irrigation, understanding and predicting drought, and improving global climate models. Unfortunately, accurate…
Jul 13, 2015
Calibrating Satellite Data to Better Understand Clouds
The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) collects and analyzes satellite data in order to advance our understanding of clouds—how they are distributed around the…
Jun 8, 2015
Can You Forecast the Next Epidemic?
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites–North Carolina (CICS-NC) is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Centers for Disease Control and…
Apr 10, 2015
Winter Severity and Frost Depth in a Warming Climate
In many areas of the country, proper building design and construction depend on accurate expectations of how deeply the ground will freeze in the winter.…
Mar 16, 2015
A Unified Framework for Measuring Stewardship Practices Applied to Digital Environmental Datasets
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…
Feb 27, 2015
PERSIANN: Climate Data Record and Smartphone App
The Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) at the University of California, Irvine, a partner of CICS-NC, has developed a smartphone/tablet application called “RainMapper”…
Feb 11, 2015
NOAA Cooperative Agreement Renewed
NOAA Cooperative Agreement Renewed The North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS) announces the renewal of a cooperative institute support agreement between the National Oceanic…
Feb 9, 2015
Temperature Extremes in a Warming Climate
We know that global and national average temperatures have been increasing since around the start of the 20th century. But have there also been increases…
Oct 30, 2014
Cyclone Center: New Paper, Website Updates
“We don’t understand all the mysteries of tropical cyclones” That’s the motivation behind the Cyclone Center project, which is soliciting help from “citizen scientists” around…
Oct 29, 2014
Validation of Land Surface Temperature products derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer
Satellites provide critical weather and climate data, including measurements of surface temperature, but extracting temperature information from raw satellite data requires sophisticated data-processing algorithms. Jim…