Northeast Regional Climate CenterNortheast Regional Climate Center

Keith EgglestonKeith Eggleston

Regional ClimatologistRegional Climatologist

NOAA Regional Climate CentersNOAA Regional Climate Centers

NOAA Regional Climate CentersNOAA Regional Climate CentersHistory and Program Management

Developed in response to National Climate Developed in response to National Climate Program Act of 1978Program Act of 1978

Demonstration Projects 1981-1986Demonstration Projects 1981-1986

National Climate Program Office 1986-1991National Climate Program Office 1986-1991

National Weather Service 1991-1997National Weather Service 1991-1997

National Climatic Data Center 1997-presentNational Climatic Data Center 1997-present

Typical RCC PersonnelTypical RCC Personnel

DirectorDirector Regional ClimatologistRegional Climatologist Research Climatologist(s)Research Climatologist(s) Service ClimatologistsService Climatologists Information technologistsInformation technologists

• System administratorSystem administrator• ProgrammerProgrammer

Support staffSupport staff• Administrative assistantAdministrative assistant• Student staffStudent staff

Mission of the NRCCMission of the NRCC

Facilitate the collection, dissemination, Facilitate the collection, dissemination, quality and use of climate dataquality and use of climate data

Monitor regional climate conditions and their Monitor regional climate conditions and their impactsimpacts

Conduct applied researchConduct applied research

Climate ServicesClimate Services

Provide general and user-defined regional Provide general and user-defined regional and local climate products and services to and local climate products and services to external users.external users.

Provide regional and local expertise to a wide Provide regional and local expertise to a wide range of customers.range of customers.

Products evolve from user and partner Products evolve from user and partner interests.interests.

NRCC Requests by User TypeNRCC Requests by User Type

ACIS - Applied Climatological ACIS - Applied Climatological Information SystemInformation System

Computer system to acquire, store, access Computer system to acquire, store, access and distribute a comprehensive collection of and distribute a comprehensive collection of surface observationssurface observations• Historical and near real-time observationsHistorical and near real-time observations• Integrated database of NOAA and other federal Integrated database of NOAA and other federal

and non-federal data sourcesand non-federal data sources

Data provided to NCDC and JAWF dailyData provided to NCDC and JAWF daily

Improved quality control procedures being Improved quality control procedures being implementedimplemented

CLIMODCLIMOD

Web access to climate products and dataWeb access to climate products and data• Daily temperature and precipitation data, normals Daily temperature and precipitation data, normals

and extremesand extremes• Monthly time series summariesMonthly time series summaries• Degree day accumulationsDegree day accumulations• Frost statisticsFrost statistics

Provides dynamic up-to-date climate recordProvides dynamic up-to-date climate record

Free to all NWS offices Free to all NWS offices (call to setup an account)(call to setup an account)

CLIMOD - Main MenuCLIMOD - Main Menu

CLIMOD Product InterfaceCLIMOD Product Interface

CLIMOD - AlmanacCLIMOD - Almanac

CLIMOD - Frost SummaryCLIMOD - Frost Summary

CLIMOD - Time SeriesCLIMOD - Time Series

ACIS Mapping ProductsACIS Mapping Products

Regional and national contour and dot mapsRegional and national contour and dot maps• 38 maps updated daily38 maps updated daily• 14 maps for latest month and season14 maps for latest month and season• Archive of maps for previous months and Archive of maps for previous months and

seasonsseasons• Maps are regenerated as higher quality data are Maps are regenerated as higher quality data are

obtainedobtained

Drought Monitor team uses ACIS maps to Drought Monitor team uses ACIS maps to resolve finer resolutionresolve finer resolution

ACIS MapsACIS Maps

ACIS MapsACIS Maps

ACIS MapsACIS Maps

Specialized ProductsSpecialized Products

Evapotranspiration estimatesEvapotranspiration estimates

Solar radiation estimatesSolar radiation estimates

Wind rose summariesWind rose summaries

Bin temperature summariesBin temperature summaries

Precipitation extremes tables and graphsPrecipitation extremes tables and graphs

Climate MonitoringClimate Monitoring

Ongoing projectsOngoing projects• Monthly web summariesMonthly web summaries

• Climate summary tablesClimate summary tables• Climate impacts reportClimate impacts report

• Northeast Drought PageNortheast Drought Page

• The Grass PageThe Grass Page

Press releases for significant eventsPress releases for significant events

Ongoing MonitoringOngoing Monitoring

Turfgrass MonitoringTurfgrass Monitoring

Drought MonitoringDrought Monitoring

Monitoring of Extreme EventsMonitoring of Extreme Events

ResearchResearch

Applied climate research results appear in Applied climate research results appear in journals and NRCC Research Report seriesjournals and NRCC Research Report series

Many research projects result from requests Many research projects result from requests and products feed back into service area and products feed back into service area

CDMP projectsCDMP projects

Precipitation Extremes Publication Precipitation Extremes Publication

Climate Record Book StationsClimate Record Book Stations

Also 24 Alaska, 4 Hawaii, 10 Pacific Islands, 1 Puerto Rico

CDMP - Climate Record BooksCDMP - Climate Record Books

Seattle Precipitation (TD-3200)Seattle Precipitation (TD-3200)

Annual Precipitation - Seattle from TD3200

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35.00

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1948 1958 1968 1978 1988 1998

Precipitation (inches)

… … with CRB addedwith CRB added

Seattle Annual Precipitation - CRB and TD3200

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1878 1898 1918 1938 1958 1978 1998

Precipitation (inches)

CRB TD3200

Overlap period

Lawn Watering ProjectLawn Watering Project

Lawn Watering ProjectLawn Watering Project

RCC/NWS PartnershipRCC/NWS Partnership

Quality data is the foundation of Quality data is the foundation of everything we do!everything we do!

RCC/NWS PartnershipRCC/NWS Partnership

Improve Improve quantityquantity of coop data ingested in of coop data ingested in near real-timenear real-time• SHEF encoded dataSHEF encoded data• Modernized coop station dataModernized coop station data

Improve Improve qualityquality of coop data of coop data• Monitor observer performanceMonitor observer performance• Work together to resolve data quality issuesWork together to resolve data quality issues

RCC/NWS PartnershipRCC/NWS Partnership

RCCs are a comprehensive regional RCCs are a comprehensive regional resource for climate data, resource for climate data, climate productsclimate products, , and climate informationand climate information• RCCs are set up to handle routine and non-RCCs are set up to handle routine and non-

routine climate data requestsroutine climate data requests• Resources available to assist NWS CFPsResources available to assist NWS CFPs

Cooperative studiesCooperative studies

Contact InformationContact Information

Northeast RCC

1123 Bradfield Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: 607-255-1749

Fax: 607-255-2106

NRCC@cornell.edu

www.nrcc.cornell.edu

Southeast RCC

2221 Devine St.

Suite 222

Columbia, SC 29205

Toll Free: 1-866-845-1553

Phone: 803-734-9560 / 9559

Fax: 803-734-9573

sercc@dnr.state.sc.us

www.dnr.state.sc.us/climate/sercc/