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Kim Fewless will lead a project designed to bridge communities across UCAR, NSF NCAR, UCP, and university partners as well as engage with practitioners, policy makers, the private sector, and/or nongovernmental organizations, with a focus on water systems and their predictability.

As extreme heat continues to pose a growing threat to communities across the US, the NSF NCAR GIS Program recently hosted two events aimed at deepening understanding and strengthening response strategies.

The 2024 GIS Program 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.