Search Results for: data quality

Apr 11, 2019

Precipitation and Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes

New research reveals that the overall risk of a fatal car crash increases by about 34% during precipitation events in the contiguous United States. Compared…→

Dec 19, 2019

Using a Neural Network to Detect Weather Fronts

NCICS researchers Jim Biard and Kenneth Kunkel have developed a deep learning neural network tool called DL-FRONT that automatically identifies weather fronts in datasets of…→

 
Jan 19, 2022

New US State Climate Summaries

New State Climate Summaries for all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands provide a concise look at observed and projected climate…→

 
Dec 8, 2022

NCICS at AGU 2022

NCICS at AGU 2022 Fall Meeting More than a dozen NCICS staff are contributing to a range of presentations and poster sessions at this year’s…→

 
Oct 13, 2016

NASA DEVELOP Students Visit NCEI

NASA DEVELOP Students Visit NCEI MARCH 28, 2013 Background The NASA DEVELOP Program at Wise, Virginia focuses on environmental research conducted through the use of…→

 
Nov 13, 2019

A suicide hotline powered by big data

Experience magazine, Northeastern University. By Glenn McDonald.→

Oct 29, 2014

The Impact of Best Track Discrepancies on Global Tropical Cyclone Climatologies using IBTrACS

Accurate, consistent, and homogenous data are critical for understanding the current climatology of tropical cyclones and identifying any trends in these storms in a changing…→

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…→

May 31, 2019

NC State Climate Research Institute to Host NOAA Cooperative Institute

NCICS to Host NOAA Cooperative Institute NCICS will host the Asheville location of the new Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, which will be…→