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Why this summer in New England was really wet
If you’re in New England and you’ve stepped outside at any point this summer, there was a good chance it was raining. Cities across the region had some of their wettest Julys on record. Flooding devastated Vermont and New Hampshire issued a record number of flash flood warnings. A lot of that rain has come as downpours. Strong storms are typical in the summer, said Donny Dumont, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine.
In Colorado, rebuilding riverside roads to withstand future floods
On Solid Ground: river and climate science builds better roads from Climate.gov on Vimeo.Video by Ned Gardiner and Climate.gov video team. Stressors and impacts In September 2013, a slow-moving cold front stalled over Colorado and mixed with warm, humid airflow from the south—the result was a devastating deluge across Colorado’s Front Range.
Managing agricultural climate risks in U.S. Southeast
Running from the Appalachian Mountains to the Florida Everglades, the southeastern United States produces a vast array of agricultural goods including citrus, strawberries, corn, cotton, soybean, and peanuts. To effectively bring these crops—and many other agriculture goods—to market, growers need to track a variety of weather and climate conditions from week to week and season to season.
Understanding local climate impacts for decision making
Understanding how climate impacts weather on the local level is an essential ability for any meteorologist or climatologist. That’s why the National Weather Service developed the Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT)—a Web-based tool that helps you link local weather and water events to signals in the climate system, understand how global climate change contributes to local climate trends, and explore how climate variability contributes to local impacts.
The Weather and Climate Toolkit
Making climate and weather data manageable Visualizing data makes it easier to understand exactly how an extreme weather event affected people’s lives, livelihoods, and property and how those things could be affected in the future. Knowing how to access and analyze the wide variety of datasets needed to study those events can be a challenge, however.
Climate forecast training for international meteorologists
Climate change is a global phenomenon, affecting weather events around the world. Therefore, people around the globe need climate information to anticipate potentially damaging floods, droughts, crop and pest conditions, and disease outbreaks.
Using climate data to protect growers and ranchers
Pasture, rangeland, and forage land occupy roughly 55 percent of the land in the United States—the largest extent of managed land in the country. Working with private companies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency uses precipitation data from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center as part of an insurance program for ranchers and those who grow hay or other livestock forage. The video below describes how it works.
Mapping weather and climate in the West
From the Rocky Mountains to the beaches of the Pacific Coast, the American West is an incredibly diverse landscape where water availability and temperature can change mile by mile. To understand how climate patterns affect your region, state, or neighborhood, you know you need access to fine-scale data, but you may not know where you can get it.
NOAA's CanVis Tool lets coastal planners see 'What would it look like if...?'
With roughly half of the U.S. population living within 100 miles of the coast, both people and nature have large impacts on the coastal environment, making coastal development especially complicated. The CanVis tool from NOAA’s Coastal Services Center provides a powerful way to visualize potential future changes including sea level rise and coastal development, and to keep these changes in perspective before they happen. The video below provides a virtual tour of CanVis.
Monitoring drought
Developed by NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) program, the U.S. Drought Portal offers access to maps, data, and expert assessments through easy-to-use tools designed to help decision makers monitor, plan for, and recover from water shortages. The video below provides a virtual tour of the tools available at the Drought Portal, with extra emphasis on the portal’s most widely used product—the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Viewing sea level rise
Developed by the Office of Coastal Management, the sea level rise viewer offers access to data and information about the risks of sea level rise, storm surge, and flooding along the coastal United States. The Web-based map has the potential to help business owners and community planners—like New Jersey’s Ivar Johnson, whose bayside restaurant was damaged by Sandy last October—build (or rebuild) in a more resilient way. The video below provides a virtual tour.
Most Americans Want to Learn More about Climate Change
As American Meteorological Society (AMS) members who study Americans’ understanding of climate change and who are engaged in programs to educate Americans about climate change, we want our AMS colleagues to realize their key role in public education.
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