“Field Photo Weekend” July 2-4. . . Celebrate Fourth of July Weekend by taking a photo or two! What does your landscape look like in late spring or early summer? Have you participated in the CoCoRaHS Field Photos Weekends before? If not, here’s your chance to join hundreds of other CoCoRaHS observers to see what […]
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“Field Photo Weekend” May 28-30 . . . Celebrate Memorial Day Weekend by taking a photo or two! What does your landscape look like in late spring or early summer? Have you participated in the CoCoRaHS Field Photos Weekends before? If not, here’s your chance to join hundreds of other CoCoRaHS observers to see what
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Society is increasingly affected by climate impacts, from prolonged water shortages to damaging coastal floods and wildfires. Scientists studying climate variations are eager to have their knowledge used in adaptive decision making. To achieve this, science and society must engage productively around complex management and policy challenges. For over 20 years, the science-society interface has
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New Report on Seasonal Forecasting The National Academies of Sciences released a new report on Next Generation Earth System Prediction: Strategies for Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecasting that presents a vision of making subseasonal to seasonal forecasts (from 2 weeks to 12 months) as widely used as short-term weather forecasts are today. SCIPP team member, Mark
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A new report is available on the emergency management response to the 20 May 2013 EF-5 tornado that struck central Oklahoma. The event provided a unique opportunity to learn how communities in the area dealt with what could be considered a repeat disaster. Two other violent tornadoes took very similar paths across central Oklahoma in
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“Field Photo Weekend” February 13-15th . . . Celebrate President’s Day Weekend by taking a photo or two! What does your landscape look like in mid-winter or early spring? Have you participated in the CoCoRaHS Field Photos Weekends before? If not, here’s your chance to join hundreds of other CoCoRaHS observers to see what our
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On Monday, October 26, 2015, the Water Reservoir Data Visualization Tool became available. The tool can be found in our Data Tools section here. During the Southern Plains drought, meetings with drought managers and planners at regional drought assessment forums and during drought management webinars revealed that numerous user groups desire ready access to information
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Grab your camera, it’s time to take some pictures again.Since the landscape can’t send us selfies, we’re going to need your help. For the past 3 years, SCIPP, CoCoRaHS, and the Earth Observation and Modeling Facility have conducted a “Field Photos Weekend” project to create a national picture of our landscape. We have asked CoCoRaHS
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Now that the historic drought has largely receded from the region, we would like to solicit your feedback regarding the usefulness of the Southern Plains Drought Outlook Summary, which you have been receiving for some time. A copy of the May 2015 Summary is attached, for your reference. May 2015 Summary The Southern Climate Impacts
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The Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP), a NOAA RISA Team, is seeking a new Climate Assessment Specialist / Research Associate who will work closely with selected communities to analyze and assess their vulnerabilities (both physical and social) to extreme events and climate change and to collaborate with colleagues at the National Climate Assessment, other
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