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Identifying drought impacts are a critical component of building an effective Drought Early Warning System. Currently, impact reports are typically sporadic, making it difficult to tell if an area is not experiencing impacts or those impacts are not being reported. To address this, two RISA Teams (Carolinas RISA and Climate Assessment for the Southwest) and […]

Scientists collect a lot of data about our weather, climate and environment. The data helps us understand changes, develop conceptual models, and generate forecasts. But we need to know that these observations represent what is really happening locally. We cannot put a set of eyes everywhere they need to be, but we can get a

SCIPP researcher and Ph.D. candidate Hal Needham was awarded first place in the Climate Specialty Group Student Paper Competition at the 2013 Association of American Geographers annual meeting in April 2013. Needham presented on Correlating Storm Surge Heights with Tropical Cyclone Winds at and before Landfall. Congratulations Hal Needham!

Weather and climate have a tremendous impact on the southern U.S. The NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Billion-Dollar Weather/Climate Disaster map (Figure 1) reminds us that SCIPP states are among the most hazard-prone in the country. Planning and preparing for these hazards is an important job function for many of SCIPP’s stakeholders. Figure 1:

We all take observations of the weather each day, but have you ever wondered how the weather relates to the world around us? Our data can tell us a lot about balance. Is there enough rain or too much? Is the hailstorm big enough to cause damage? How is the snowpack doing and what will

SCIPP PI Mark Shafer and SCIPP Program Manager Lynne Carter will be discussing the implications of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) in a webinar on March 14, 2013. Highlights include identifying and discussing priorities for addressing destabilizing threats posed by a changing climate. For more information, please visit: http://www.icleiusa.org/training-events/national-climate-assessment-webinar-series

NOAA, Sea Grant of Louisiana, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Office of Coastal Management, and SCIPP are co-hosting the Climate Adaptation Training for Coastal Communities course February 25 and 26, 2013 is Baton Rouge, LA. The Climate Adaptation for Coastal Communities training course provides participants with practical skills and information on coastal climate adaptation issues,

Hosted by the Union of Concerned Scientists and beginning on February 1, a series of webinars will be held on the recently released draft National Climate Assessment (NCA) produced the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The NCA provides a comprehensive assessment of the current understanding of climate change science, including an overview of likely impacts

A visiting scientist from Zimbabwe spent four months working with SCIPP at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and studied drought. Xolile Ncube works with Christian Care, an organization in Zimbabwe that focuses on implementing conservation farming techniques to mitigate some of the impacts of drought in the country. While at OU, Ncube worked with Dr.

Hal Needham, SCIPP Research Associate at Louisiana State University Hurricane Sandy devastated much of the Mid-Atlantic Coast this week with ferocious winds, record-setting storm surge and destructive waves. While the economic toll from this disaster could total up to $50 billion (Huffington Post, November 2, 2012), the staggering human loss has made this storm a