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An old saying expresses
the thought that "climate is what you expect, weather is what
you get." But what can we expect from the climate of the United
States, and the whole world, in the coming decade—or even in
the next millennium? As all life on Earth depends on a favorable climate
to survive, that's an important question, a question that researchers
at NOAA are trying to answer.
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Climate-At-A-Glance
- Search 108 years of archived weather data
for the United States.
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Drought
Termination and Amelioration - NOAA
calculates how much precipitation it will take to end droughts
across the USA. |
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Climate
Data - Degree Days, Precipitation, Winds, Temperatures
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Climate
Monitoring - Reports and Products |
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Climatic
Outlooks |
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AMSU
Retrievals for Climate Applications - A methodology
has been developed for deriving temperature retrievals from
the NOAA-15 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU).
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U.S.
Drought Assessment - On
each Thursday, the CPC, together with the United States Department
of Agriculture, the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln,
Nebraska, and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center issues a
weekly drought assessment called the United States Drought Monitor.
The Monitor provides a consolidated depiction of national drought
conditions based on a combination of drought indicators and
field reports. The CPC issues the Seasonal United States Drought
Outlook each month in conjunction with the Thursday release
of the long-lead temperature and precipitation outlooks near
the middle of the month. |
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Weather
Observation Stations - City, County and More |
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Climate
Visualization -
an interactive graphing tool designed to allow visual browsing
of the data available on-line at the National Climatic Data
Center (NCDC).
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Heating
& Cooling Degree Day Data - heating fuel demand
information on a state-wide basis. The total monthly series,
by state, are available for the period 1931/32 through 1991/92:
Historical Climatology Series 5-1, "State Regional and
National Monthly and Seasonal Heating Degree Days Weighted by
Population (1990 Census), (July 1931 - June 1992)."
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U.S.
Historical Climatology Network - high-quality moderate
sized data set of monthly averaged maximum, minimum, and mean
temperature and total monthly precipitation developed to assist
in the detection of regional climate change. The USHCN is comprised
of 1221 high-quality stations from the U.S. Cooperative Observing
Network within the 48 contiguous United States. |
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Tropical
Atmosphere Ocean Project (TAO) - Real-time data
from moored ocean buoys for improved detection, understanding
and prediction of El Niņo and La Niņa. |
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SST
Animations of El Niņo events
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Global
Climate Change - events, reports, publications
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NOAA
National Weather Service is the primary source of weather
data, forecasts and warnings for the United States. Television
weathercasters and private meteorology companies prepare their
forecasts using this information. The NWS is the sole United
States official voice for issuing warnings during life-threatening
weather.
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National
Climatic Data Center - NCDC is the world's largest
active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate
publications and responds to data requests from all over the
world. NCDC operates the World Data Center for Meteorology which
is collocated at NCDC in Asheville, North Carolina, and the
World Data Center for Paleoclimatolgy which is located in Boulder,
Colorado.
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National
Centers for Environmental Prediction - The National
Centers for Environmental Prediction, located in Camp Springs,
Md., is "Where America's Climate and Weather Services Begin".
Virtually all the meteorological data collected over the globe
arrives at NCEP, where environmental scientists analyze this
information and generate a wide variety of environmental guidance
information. |
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Climate
Prediction Center - serves
the public by assessing and forecasting the impacts of short-term
climate variability, emphasizing enhanced risks of weather-related
extreme events, for use in mitigating losses and maximizing
economic gains. |
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Climate
Services Division at the NOAA National Weather
Service provides the strategic vision for climate services and
oversees the NWS climate services program. It develops policy
and requirements for climate prediction products and other services
related to the period of a week out to one year, including seasonal
forecasts and threats assessments. |
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Regional
Climate Centers |
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Climate
Diagnostics Center - identifies
the nature and causes of climate variations on time scales ranging
from a month to centuries. The goal of this work is to develop
the ability to predict important climate variations on these
time scales. |
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Ocean
Climate Laboratory - develops improved ocean climatologies
for annual, seasonal, and monthly compositing periods; investigates
interannual-to-decadal ocean climate variability using historical
oceanographic data; builds scientifically, quality-controlled
global oceanographic databases; facilitates international exchange
of oceanographic data. |
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Climate
Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory - conducts
sustained observations and research related to source and sink
strengths, trends and global distributions of atmospheric constituents
that are capable of forcing change in the climate of Earth through
modification of the atmospheric radiative environment, those
that may cause depletion of the global ozone layer, and those
that affect baseline air quality. CMDL accomplishes this mission
primarily through long-term measurements of key atmospheric
species at sites spanning the globe, including four fully-equipped
Baseline Observatories. |
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