Sentences with phrase «national weather centers»

Extending the instrumental record of climate beyond the late 19th Century when many of the national weather centers were first started is an important, difficult and undervalued task.
Extending the instrumental record of climate beyond the late 19th Century when many of the national weather centers were first started is an important, difficult and undervalued task.

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The National Hurricane Center's Stewart also mentions that many of the island's weather stations were knocked offline during the storm.
Civilian space weather alerts come courtesy of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center.
On a basic level, global climate models are similar to today's weather forecasting tools, explains Jerry Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and a leading climate modeler.
«For the first time, space weather forecasters now have models and tools for predicting how a CME is released from the sun, accelerated out into the solar wind, and ultimately ends up colliding with Earth's magnetosphere creating the geomagnetic storms that impact so many technologies and systems,» says Rodney Viereck of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Environment Center.
Nestled against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) studies weather, climate and atmospheric science.
In a study published Jan. 30, 2017, in Space Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in space.
The key thing is to look at the climate over long periods of time and not try to find meaning in one weather event, said David Easterling, chief of the Scientific Services Division at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
«High resolution gives us the ability to look at intense weather, like hurricanes,» said Kevin Reed, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a co-author on the paper.
Moreover, the impacts of that warming, including sea level rise, drought, floods and other extreme weather, could hit earlier and harder than many models project, said study co-author John Fasullo, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
This is a much - needed approach, because climate change «really deals with all aspects of weather,» says Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
It then overlays this data on regular digital flight - planning weather maps provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aviation Weather Center.
But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human innational weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human inNational Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.
«None of these techniques is a proven technology,» says Roelof Bruintjes, an expert in weather modification at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
Researchers at Harvard University, the University of Utah and the National Center for Atmospheric Research say they were able to accurately measure carbon dioxide emitted in Salt Lake City using ground stations, weather and land - use data, and a computer model.
Steven Cavallo is new to the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, fresh from a postdoc in polar weather at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
Here we present an analysis of daily global fire weather trends from 1979 to 2013 based on three sub-daily global meteorological data sets (the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Reanalysis, NCEP - DOE Reanalysis II and the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Interim Reanalysis) 35,36,37 between ∼ 0.75 ° and 2.0 ° grid cell resolution.
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) is pleased to announce the launch of its online weather database to facilitate sharing of all its weather data with researchers within the Center and amongst its partners, particularly the national agricultural research systems.
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory within the Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, along with collaborators from the U.K. Met Office and other modeling centers around the world, organized an international multi-model intercomparison project, name CAUSES (Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface), to identify possible causes for the large warm surface air temperature bias seen in many weather forecast and climate model simulations.
While there has been a 70 percent increase in heavy precipitation events in the region since 1958, most of that has been in warm weather rainstorms, Ken Kunkel, a researcher at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., said.
AfricaRice built this online weather database to help facilitate sharing of all its weather data with researchers within the Center, partners of the organization and particularly the national agricultural research systems.
The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), which is the world's largest active archive of weather data, is located in Asheville.
The Santa Barbara Sailing Center (Discretion of onsite manager) reserves the right to cancel (with refund), postpone charter or deny charter to Channel Islands National Park due to inclement weather.
The Wounded Warrior Covered Walkway in Walter Red National Military Medical Center, a walkway intended to provide protection for vets against harsh weather conditions is now complete two years later.
Note the link is from a National Weather Service page at a regional weather center with unofficial Alaskan climate info and analyses, including other docs by the same person, and that the site generally is for weather forecasting and analysis, not climatology.
As Starley Thompson, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., put it, the challenge of recognizing global warming amid the ups and downs of weather is like trying to discern cornstalks rising in a weedy field.
Kevin Trenberth, a National Center for Atmospheric Research scientist who has long concluded that global warming driven by accumulating greenhouse gases is substantially influencing weather patterns:
A national center is appropriate to host major super computers, data centers, instrumented aircraft, radars and other instruments, community weather and climate models, and teams of scientists working together on large problems that are difficult to do in single universities.
Yesterday, several ice experts, including William Chapman of the University of Illinois, Marika Holland at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Walt Meier at the Boulder ice center, said that cloudier weather had prevented early - summer heating and that the strong winds that opened big stretches of water last year were not repeated this sCenter for Atmospheric Research, and Walt Meier at the Boulder ice center, said that cloudier weather had prevented early - summer heating and that the strong winds that opened big stretches of water last year were not repeated this scenter, said that cloudier weather had prevented early - summer heating and that the strong winds that opened big stretches of water last year were not repeated this summer.
In the meantime, keep a weather eye on the Web site of the National Hurricane Center and Kerry Emanuel's page at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which collects a variety of forecasts of storm strengths and tracks.
Indeed, in the case of Hurricane Sandy, any role for greenhouse gases was a background influence, even according to Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who's been one of the most vocal scientists using extreme weather to make a case for emissions action.
Related The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which runs one of the critical hubs for climate analysis, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has just published «guidance for the next U.S. presidential administration and Congress on the importance of better understanding and predicting weather, water, climate, and other aspects of the Earth system.»
Earlier last month at the National Hurricane Center, Obama dared suggest that climate change is fuelling extreme weather.
«High resolution gives us the ability to look at intense weather, like hurricanes,» said Kevin Reed, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a co-author on the paper.
The team analyzed data from the most robust meteorological database known, the Chinese National Meteorology Information Center, a network of 983 weather observatories stationed throughout China's 3.7 million square miles.
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center compile and maintain the main weather station datasets used by the five groups currently publishing global temperature trend estimates, i.e., the ones we mentioned at the start of the essay in Figure 1.
DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.
(ii) facilitate collection and exchange of data and information between the States and Federal Government on weather and climate in conjunction with the National Climatic Data Center;
From the illegal federal «gag order» on US National Weather Service and NOAA employees, to the new weather information crackdown in Egypt, global power centers are increasingly desperate in their attempts to hide the climate engineering atrocities from populations.
But Nam - Young Kang, who now directs South Korea's National Typhoon Center, and James Eisner, a geographer at Florida State University, set about a study of weather data and hurricane, cyclone and typhoon records between 1984 and 2012 to see if they could identify a pattern of change.
Researchers at CIRES» National Snow and Ice Data Center [About NSIDC] investigate the dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves, new techniques for the remote sensing of snow and freeze / thaw cycle of soils, the role of snow in hydrologic modeling, linkages between changes in sea ice extent and weather patterns, large - scale shifts in polar climate, river and lake ice, and the distribution and characteristics of seasonally and permanently frozen ground.
About these visualizations: On the U.S. maps, each gold point represents one of the 4,451 U.S. weather stations that has been recording temperatures for at least 30 years, the length of time the National Climatic Data Center uses as its standard for establishing a record.
Since weather records began in 1851, no hurricane of Matthew's predicted strength (Category 4, with sustained winds of at least 135 mph that the National Hurricane Center labels as «catastrophic») has ever made landfall in Florida north of West Palm Beach.
Although a new forecast from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center suggests that this dangerous weather pattern could revive in the fall, many in the parched regions find themselves in the unlikely position of hoping for a season of heavy tropical storms in the Southeast and drenching monsoons in the Southwest.
According to the National Climate Data Center, October 2009 was the wettest October in the 115 - year weather record for the south - central United States, which includes the area shown in this image.
Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boulder, Colorado, in the US, says world weather is a combination of natural variability plus global warming from human influences: «The weather experienced around the world in the past year... shows us the sort of thing that will become routine in a decade or so.
Researchers from Stanford University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) put data on weather and crops into computer models of climate.
There is no evidence, for instance, that extreme weather events are increasing in any systematic way, according to scientists at the U.S. National Hurricane Center, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which released the second part of this year's report earlier this month).
By 2015 most U.S. broadcast weather forecasters accepted that global warming was underway: Edward Maibach et al., «A National Survey Of Broadcast Meteorologists About Climate Change: Initial Findings,» George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (April 17, 2015), online here.
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