Northeast Regional Climate Center Keith Eggleston Regional Climatologist

NOAA Regional Climate Centers

NOAA Regional Climate Centers NOAA Regional Climate Centers History and Program Management  Developed in response to National Climate Program Act of 1978  Demonstration Projects  National Climate Program Office  National Weather Service  National Climatic Data Center 1997-present

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

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

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.

NRCC Requests by User Type

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 Historical and near real-time observations Integrated database of NOAA and other federal and non-federal data sources 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

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

CLIMOD - Main Menu

CLIMOD Product Interface

CLIMOD - Almanac

CLIMOD - Frost Summary

CLIMOD - Time Series

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

ACIS Maps

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

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

Ongoing Monitoring

Turfgrass Monitoring

Drought Monitoring

Monitoring of Extreme Events

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

Precipitation Extremes Publication

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

CDMP - Climate Record Books

Seattle Precipitation (TD-3200)

… with CRB added

Lawn Watering Project

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

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

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 RCCs are set up to handle routine and non- routine climate data requests Resources available to assist NWS CFPs Resources available to assist NWS CFPs  Cooperative studies

Contact Information Northeast RCC 1123 Bradfield Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY Phone: Fax: Southeast RCC 2221 Devine St. Suite 222 Columbia, SC Toll Free: Phone: / 9559 Fax: