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Olga Wilhelmi, Head of GIS Program, and Jennifer Boehnert, NCAR GIS Coordinator, presented the latest NSF NCAR Explorer Series lecture: Geography matters! Meeting the challenges of climate resilience with geospatial technology. They discussed why geography matters in understanding and reducing weather and climate risks, as well as the role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in climate research and action. They illustrated how geospatial technology is not only enabling new scientific advancements, but also contributing to building community resilience to weather hazards and the changing climate. 

The 2024 BRIGHTE workshop was attended by 17 early career faculty and students who learned about Exploring Coastal Resilience and Flood Risk through Geospatial Storytelling held on Aug. 12-13, 2024 at NSF NCAR in Boulder, CO.

NCAR GIS just released three new interactive visualization tools that illustrate air quality across a variety of modalities. These tools have been developed as dashboards that elegantly facilitate the end-user experience making it easy to understand trends and patterns in the data.

A new study published in The International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction explores how different aspects of geospatial visualization influence individuals' understanding and relatability of storm surge information.

Global climate simulations from the Community Earth System Model (CESM), that were produced at NCAR for the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC and are part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), are now available for download in a number of tabular and geospatial (GIS) formats.

New study explores effectiveness of geovisualizations in storm surge risk communication.  

Best Practices for Mapping Storm Surge Inundation

Learn more about the power of GIS to advance climate research and communication in our ArcGIS StoryMap, "The Power of GIS".

A new dataset has been developed at NCAR which provides estimated lake bathymetry data for over 1.4 million lakes and waterbodies world-wide.

Addressing complex Earth System science and societal problems requires information about land cover and land surface change.