Tag: Climate Data Records
Feb 5, 2019
Seasonal and Regional Changes in Arctic Sea Ice
Two recent papers by a team of authors, including CICS-NC’s Ge Peng, explore the changing seasonality and regional variability of Arctic sea ice cover. This…
Feb 21, 2018
Arctic Sea Ice Trends and Projections
Researchers from CICS-NC and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill used satellite data and various statistical models to analyze trends in Arctic sea ice…
Sep 1, 2016
Obs4MIPS: Connecting Models and Observations
A key part of the validation and assessment of any climate model is to start the model at some time in the past, run it…
Jul 14, 2016
Expertise: Data Stewardship
Stewardship Ingest and Archive Access Roles and Responsibilities Best Practices Climate Data Records (CDRs) Data Quality Data Maturity Models Quality Assurance Calibration and Validation Algorithm…
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…
Mar 22, 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…
Dec 18, 2015
Kelvin Waves and Tropical Cyclogenesis: A Global Survey
A new study by Carl Schreck III of the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies and North Carolina State University provides important insights into the…
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”…
Apr 19, 2013
Evaluation and Characterization of Satellite Products
With the substantial change in the Arctic sea ice and associated impacts of the change in weather and climate system, ecosystems, and coastal communities, it…
Feb 10, 2013
Uncertainty Quantification
Policy makers rely on climate observations and model predictions that inherently contain uncertainties. Accurate characterization of these uncertainties is necessary to make well-informed decisions. Observations…