Resources

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

Hal Needham and Dr. Lynne Carter recently conducted research to better understand the climate information needs of Gulf Coast region decision makers. Carter and Needham produced a report that details their findings, entitled Gulf Coast Climate Information Needs Assessment. The report is available here and in the SCIPP Documents section of our website. The needs

The latest release from NOAA indicates that globally, July 2012 has been the 4th hottest July on record. How does that translate to our 6 SCIPP states? Arkansas recorded the 6th warmest July on record, and the warmest January to July on record with an average temperature 4.1 F above normal. Louisiana reported the warmest

Since SCIPP began hosting webinars for the Managing Drought in the Southern Plains webinar series, a series produced in conjunction with the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), and NOAA Climate Services, in September 2011, the need for those webinars to be recorded and posted for viewing became apparent. Therefore,

SCIPP recently completed the 2nd of two pilot studies that evaluated decision makers sources of flood information, the value of flood-related products and services, and their need for additional information. Flooding is a serious cause of death for U.S. citizens (NWS 2012), and often impacts the SCIPP region. Flash flooding in Oklahoma City, Okla. in

SCIPP Team Members Dr. Barry Keim and Hal Needham were recently interviewed by Louisiana State University regarding their comprehensive Storm Surge database. To read the interview, and for more information about their research, please use the following link: http://www.lsu.edu/departments/gold/2012/06/storm_surge_research.shtml

Cover of Oklahoma Needs Assessment A report that SCIPP produced, entitled An Assessment of the Climate-Related Needs of Oklahoma Decision Makers, is now available! It is located here or in the SCIPP Documents section of our website. This report is a culmination of information obtained from interviews with 23 local, state, federal, and tribal decision

The summary report from the Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Meeting on Climate Variability and Change is now available. On December 12, 2011, representatives of 22 tribal nations and 3 tribal colleges met at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. to learn about climate variability and change and develop recommendations to be included in the 2013 National

The Managing Drought in the Southern Plains webinars are located on SCIPP’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/SCIPP01. The webinars are posted on YouTube shortly after the webinars take place. The PDFs of the power point presentations are posted on the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Drought Portal, www.drought.gov, in the Southern Plains section. 2-page PDF summaries