Climate Risk Areas Initiative News

The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on October 11, 2011 titled "Advances in Drought Monitoring and Prediction".

The Fourth WMO/IOC Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) Western Indian Ocean Capacity Building Workshop will be hosted by Tanzania's Meteorological Agency (TMA) and Institute for Marine Sciences (IMS) on April 29-May 3, 2013, in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The goal of the workshop is to demonstrate the socio-economic value and benefits of new Indian Ocean Observing systems in reducing disaster risk such as from droughts and floods, managing fisheries, and improving predictive capacity for the Western Indian Ocean States.

The NOAA CPO Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program hosted a webinar on Tuesday, May 7 titled "Intraseasonal to Interannual Prediction".

A new assessment report interprets potential futures regarding climate change and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The report is now available online. 

A study by Jerome Brioude (of NOAA/ESRL/CSD and CIRES) and colleagues used data collected during NOAA's CalNex field campaign in California in 2010 to estimate emissions of CO, NOx and CO2 over the Los Angeles region.