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Webinar #19 - Thursday, June 13, 2013
Monitoring the Earth's Climate
Deke Arndt, NOAA/National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC
(biography)
"Monitoring the Earth's climate involves taking today's
observations and comparing them with decades to centuries of past
observations, and drawing conclusions from these comparisons. At NOAA's
National Climatic Data Center, Climate Monitoring is an activity that
involves detecting climate change, and designing the indicators that
help us do so. But it also involves tracking the week-to-week and
month-to-month conditions that more directly impact our lives: drought,
heat spells, wet spells in the United States and beyond.
This presentation is designed to help CoCoRaHS observers understand
about major climate monitoring efforts going on in NOAA, and how their
data fits in! We will review the do's and dont's of climate monitoring,
and how datasets are used in the process. We'll also look into recent
trends and findings about the state of our climate system and how these
may or may not relate to climate change."
View the Webinar by clicking here: http://youtu.be/FQ_ofPN39O4
View Deke Arndt's presentation slides  (11MB)
Resources:
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
NOAA's Climate Page
National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
Climate Data (sets, stations)
Other information, including monitoring
National Climate Assessment
AMS's Annual State of the Climate Report
AMS Article: Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge
Kunkel, Kenneth E., and Coauthors, 2013: Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 499–514.
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