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The report, “Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts and Vulnerability,” was released yesterday. Produced by Island Press, the book summarizes the scientific literature with respect to climate impacts on the Southeast United States, including 11 southern states to the east of the Mississippi River, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands; reviews […]

SCIPP just completed an assessment of hazard and climate change planning across the south central U.S. An online survey was sent to decision makers working at governmental and non-governmental organizations at various levels throughout the SCIPP region who were thought to be involved in weather and climate hazard management, preparedness or planning, or were environmental

Last Labor Day weekend, we launched a project to try to collect as many pictures of our landscape taken at approximately the same time as we could. Well, that initial project worked so well, we’ve done it again. And again. And now, again. We are asking for citizen scientists, such as yourself, to participate in

The Gulf of Mexico Climate Community of Practice has awarded the 2013 Gulf of Mexico Spirit of Community Award to Lynne Carter, LSU associate director of the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, or SCIPP, and the Coastal Sustainability Studio. She was selected by her peers in the Climate Community of Practice group as the individual

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