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Northeast Regional Climate Center

Northeast Regional Climate Center. Keith Eggleston Regional Climatologist. NOAA Regional Climate Centers. NOAA Regional Climate Centers History and Program Management. Developed in response to National Climate Program Act of 1978 Demonstration Projects 1981-1986

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Northeast Regional Climate Center

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  1. Northeast Regional Climate Center Keith Eggleston Regional Climatologist

  2. NOAA Regional Climate Centers

  3. NOAA Regional Climate CentersHistory and Program Management • Developed in response to National Climate Program Act of 1978 • Demonstration Projects 1981-1986 • National Climate Program Office 1986-1991 • National Weather Service 1991-1997 • National Climatic Data Center 1997-present

  4. Typical RCC Personnel • Director • Regional Climatologist • Research Climatologist(s) • Service Climatologists • Information technologists • System administrator • Programmer • Support staff • Administrative assistant • Student staff

  5. Mission of the NRCC • Facilitate the collection, dissemination, quality and use of climate data • Monitor regional climate conditions and their impacts • Conduct applied research

  6. Climate Services • Provide general and user-defined regional and local climate products and services to external users. • Provide regional and local expertise to a wide range of customers. • Products evolve from user and partner interests.

  7. NRCC Requests by User Type

  8. ACIS - Applied Climatological Information System • Computer system to acquire, store, access and distribute a comprehensive collection of surface observations • Historical and near real-time observations • Integrated database of NOAA and other federal and non-federal data sources • Data provided to NCDC and JAWF daily • Improved quality control procedures being implemented

  9. CLIMOD • Web access to climate products and data • Daily temperature and precipitation data, normals and extremes • Monthly time series summaries • Degree day accumulations • Frost statistics • Provides dynamic up-to-date climate record • Free to all NWS offices (call to setup an account)

  10. CLIMOD - Main Menu

  11. CLIMOD Product Interface

  12. CLIMOD - Almanac

  13. CLIMOD - Frost Summary

  14. CLIMOD - Time Series

  15. ACIS Mapping Products • Regional and national contour and dot maps • 38 maps updated daily • 14 maps for latest month and season • Archive of maps for previous months and seasons • Maps are regenerated as higher quality data are obtained • Drought Monitor team uses ACIS maps to resolve finer resolution

  16. ACIS Maps

  17. ACIS Maps

  18. ACIS Maps

  19. Specialized Products • Evapotranspiration estimates • Solar radiation estimates • Wind rose summaries • Bin temperature summaries • Precipitation extremes tables and graphs

  20. Climate Monitoring • Ongoing projects • Monthly web summaries • Climate summary tables • Climate impacts report • Northeast Drought Page • The Grass Page • Press releases for significant events

  21. Ongoing Monitoring

  22. Turfgrass Monitoring

  23. Drought Monitoring

  24. Monitoring of Extreme Events

  25. Research • Applied climate research results appear in journals and NRCC Research Report series • Many research projects result from requests and products feed back into service area • CDMP projects

  26. Precipitation Extremes Publication

  27. Climate Record Book Stations Also 24 Alaska, 4 Hawaii, 10 Pacific Islands, 1 Puerto Rico

  28. CDMP - Climate Record Books

  29. Seattle Precipitation (TD-3200)

  30. … with CRB added

  31. Lawn Watering Project

  32. Lawn Watering Project

  33. RCC/NWS Partnership Quality data is the foundation of everything we do!

  34. RCC/NWS Partnership • Improve quantity of coop data ingested in near real-time • SHEF encoded data • Modernized coop station data • Improve quality of coop data • Monitor observer performance • Work together to resolve data quality issues

  35. RCC/NWS Partnership • RCCs are a comprehensive regional resource for climate data, climate products, and climate information • RCCs are set up to handle routine and non-routine climate data requests • Resources available to assist NWS CFPs • Cooperative studies

  36. Northeast RCC 1123 Bradfield Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: 607-255-1749 Fax: 607-255-2106 NRCC@cornell.edu www.nrcc.cornell.edu Southeast RCC 2221 Devine St. Suite 222 Columbia, SC 29205 Toll Free: 1-866-845-1553 Phone: 803-734-9560 / 9559 Fax: 803-734-9573 sercc@dnr.state.sc.us www.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sercc/ Contact Information

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