Session 2 Tools and Products for Real-time Monitoring of the Climate

Monday, 29 January 2024: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
Key 10 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Host: 28th Conference on Applied Climatology
Chair:
Rebecca A. Bolinger

As we continue to experience the effects of a changing climate, it is becoming increasingly important to monitor these changes as they’re happening. There are a plethora of climate monitoring products that are publicly available. Examples of federally produced tools include NOAA’s Climate at a Glance and the National Weather Service’s Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS). Federal and academic partnerships have resulted in the production of products such as WestWide Drought Tracker from the Western Regional Climate Center and GrassCast from the USDA and National Drought Mitigation Center. State Climate Offices also provide suites of real-time monitoring products, including the Oklahoma Mesonet and CoCoRaHS Condition Monitoring from the Colorado Climate Center.

In addition to the wide range of products in the public domain, industry climate service providers are providing real-time monitoring tools to meet the needs of their specific users. This session will be an opportunity for climate service providers to showcase their monitoring products that are delivering up-to-date climate information to broad audiences.

Papers:
10:45 AM
2.1
New Ag-Climate Tools Put Soil Temperature and Chilling Hours Accumulations Into a Historical Perspective
Beth Hall, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and D. J. Brouillette, L. Nowatzke, D. Todey, J. Weaver, and M. Widhalm

Handout (1.3 MB)

11:00 AM
2.2
Empowering Climate-Sensitive Decisions: The Next-Generation Local Climate Analysis Tool
Stephen R. Baxter, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Meyers, M. M. Timofeyeva-Livezey, and M. Hurwitz

11:15 AM
2.3
Visualizing Real-Time Climate Data in Virtual Reality and Its Application in Climatology
Guangyang Fang, Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC/CISESS, College Park, MD; and D. J. Figueroa, A. Pyne, and S. D. Rudlosky

11:30 AM
2.4
The Monthly Sea Level Pressure Records and Their Use in Messaging
David M. Roth, NWS, College Park, MD
Manuscript (5.1 MB)

11:45 AM
2.5
Using the Generalized Pareto Distribution as a Tool for Identification and Attribution of Extreme Temperatures
David A. Coates, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, NC; and K. E. Kunkel, C. J. Schreck III, J. Barsugli, D. R. Easterling, J. E. Uehling, and X. Zhang

Recorded Presentation
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