The July 1999 heat wave in the Midwest was an event of relatively long duration punctuated
by extreme conditions during its last 2 days. The intensity of the heat wave on 29 and 30 …

More than half (52%) of the spatial and temporal variance in multidecadal drought frequency
over the conterminous United States is attributable to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) …

The Pacific/North American (PNA) teleconnection index, a measure of the strength and phase
of the PNA teleconnection pattern, is related to the variations of the surface climate of the …

The PNA teleconnection index, a measure of the strength and phase of the Pacific/North
American teleconnection pattern, is used to examine changes in the midtropospheric flow over …

The year 2012 marks a decade of observations undertaken by the US Climate Reference
Network (USCRN) under the auspices of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center and …

In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort,
funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for …

Scott, RW, Krug EC, Burch SL, Mitsdarfer CR, and Nelson P., 2010: In vestigation of soil
moisture variability under sod in east-central Illinois. Rep. of Investigation 119, Illinois State …

Recent photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at stations in the US Historical
Climatology Network (USHCN) has led to questions regarding the reliability of surface …

Climate studies of precipitation have generally focused on daily or longer time scales of
precipitation accumulation. The main objective of this work was to identify the precipitation …

NOAA will soon use the new Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Joint
Polar Satellite System (JPSS) as its primary polar-orbiting satellite imager. Employing a near …