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Actionable Science

Conducting interdisciplinary research to address complex weather and disaster-related societal challenges

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Geospatial Analytics

Developing new methods, workflows, and analytical frameworks to explore complex interdisciplinary questions

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Geovisualizations

Creating innovative data visualizations at the intersection of climate, weather and society

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Geospatial Data and Tools

Providing weather and climate data for GIS applications and tools to facilitate the use of NCAR’s models

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Tutorials

Free tutorials teach GIS concepts and tools using weather and climate data

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Interoperability

Connecting atmospheric and geospatial data and systems

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Climate Inspector

The Climate Inspector is an interactive web application which expands GIS mapping and graphing capabilities to visualize possible temperature and precipitation changes throughout the 21st century.

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Climate Inspector

The Climate Inspector is an interactive web application which expands GIS mapping and graphing capabilities to visualize possible temperature and precipitation changes throughout the 21st century.

 

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Climate Scenarios

Climate Change Scenarios GIS portal serves a large community of GIS users. Global and downscaled climate change projections from the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4) can be downloaded in a common GIS format.

 

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Extreme Heat Climate Inspector

Extreme Heat Climate Inspector is an interactive web application to visualize possible changes in extreme heat in the future.

 

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