Resources

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

Barry Keim, Southern Climate Impacts Planning Programs, Louisiana State University Our winter forecast for most of the SCIPP region calls for warmer and drier than normal conditions, with the exception of Tennessee, where the forecast calls for wetter than normal conditions (Figure 1). Actually, what the Climate Prediction Center is really noting is that the

Dr. Lynne Carter, SCIPP program manager on the LSU campus, paneled a discussion conducted by the Security and Sustainability Forum July 21, 2011. The webinar titled Adaptation in a Changing Climate and its Impacts on National Security was the first of a five part series addressing the connections between climate change and its affects on

Louisiana residents are experiencing a most interesting time in history. We are having both flood AND drought at the same time. While the Mississippi River reaches flood levels not seen since 1973, the State of Louisiana is also experiencing drought. With the Morganza and Bonnet Carre’ floodways flowing like raging torrents to remove water from