NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program is announcing five new five-year awards totaling $19 million to research institutions from Honolulu to New York City to improve the ability of those seeking to prepare for and adapt to climate variability and change.

Greg Carbone, a RISA PI, is co-author on a paper published in the Journal of Climatology. The paper--"Assessment of NARCCAP model in simulating rainfall extremes using a spatially constrained regionalization method"--appeared online on Sept. 14.

Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA), the RISA team in the Carolinas region, has launched a new website and logo.

On September 10, 2015, in one of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's weekly speeches about climate, the Senator discussed climate impacts and research in the Gulf of Mexico region and in particular highlighted the research conducted by the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, a NOAA RISA team.

The Climate Program Office's Roger S. Pulwarty spoke at the Southern California Water Forum at  California State Polytechnic in Pomona, California,  on August 27, 2015.