Latest NCDC News 
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Supporting NOAA’s National Severe Weather Preparedness Week
August 1, 2012The first-ever National Severe Weather Preparedness Week began April 22 and will continue through April 28. This is a collaborative effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to raise awareness and save lives in the face of increasing severe weather events.
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NCDC Marine Data Stars in Titanic Documentary
August 1, 2012When researchers and filmmakers Scott Woodruff and Tim Maltin needed data for their documentary Titanic: Case Closed, they turned to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) archive, which contains hundreds of millions of records stretching back as far as the mid-1700s.
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NCDC Releases March 2012 Global State of the Climate Report: Coolest March Global Temperatures Since 1999
August 1, 2012The Earth experienced a combined average temperature for March 2012 that was the 16th warmest on record, as La Niña continued to dissipate and arctic sea ice extent remained below average.
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NCDC Releases March 2012 State of the Climate Report: Warmest March on Record for the Contiguous United States
August 1, 2012Record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to 1895.
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NCDC releases new operational Climate Data Record for Sea Ice
August 1, 2012Through a new operational Climate Data Record released this past month by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, users are now able to access the long-term record of sea ice concentration.
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The U.S. Climate Reference Network Completes Addition of New Sensor Suite at 114 Station Locations
August 1, 2012The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), managed by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in partnership with NOAA’s Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, is a network of 114 sites in the continental United States that has been implemented, beginning in 2002, for the express purpose of detecting the national signal of climate change.
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NCDC to host U.S. Disaster Reanalysis Workshop
August 1, 2012NCDC will host a U.S. Disaster Reanalysis Workshop on May 3-4, 2012, that will present and discuss Billion-dollar disaster data and the current NOAA/NCDC analysis of this data
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NCDC Provides Access to Data from Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder
August 1, 2012NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has just released data from the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), a sensor on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite mission, to the public.
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Winter season fourth warmest on record for the contiguous United States
August 1, 2012According to scientists here at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center , warmer-than-average temperatures dominated the northern and eastern regions of the country in December, January and February.
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Wow, That’s Cold! -51ºF? No Problem for New U.S. Climate Reference Network Station in Alaska
August 1, 2012The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) is a network of climate stations that provides high-quality, long-term climate observations of temperature and precipitation. One of the most recent ones installed just last year is in the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge southeast of Tok, AK.




