NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATE SERVICES - - ALASKA NWS Gary Hufford Regional Scientist

1. NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATE SERVICES - - ALASKA NWSGary HuffordRegional Scientist

2. Sustaining ObservationsPlanned Arctic Activities • Alaska • 29 Climate Reference Network (CRN) • 40 Historical Climate Network (HCN) • COOP 21st Century – 200 stations • 330 Canadian CRNs • in coordination with NOAA

3. U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) Alaska Locations Single sites installed (2): Pt. Barrow & Fairbanks Single sites to be installed: FY 10-14 (27 locations) GCOS single sites installed (2): Sitka & St. Paul Island

4. NOAA’s NWS Climate ServicesClimate Record Stewardship through COOP • COOP Paperless Initiative • Electronic Ingest of Manual Observations - Upfront QC • COOP 21st Century Transition Plan • Remedial actions to ensure maximum quality data • HCN Modernization • Automating our longest-record stations • Fisher/Porter Automated Rain Gauge Upgrade • Comprehensive hourly precipitation network

5. NOAA CLIMATE INFORMATION AND SERVICES ALASKA REGIONAL CLIMATE CENTER REGIONAL INTREGRATED SCIENCE ASSESMENT NWS LOCAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

8. Outline

9. Local Climate Forecast Products Local 3 Month Temperature Outlooks (Jan 2007): ~1200 sites Local information Multiple user centric formats Dynamic text interpretation Benefits and limitations Long term forecast evaluation Trained staff support

10. Climate Services Focal Points • Serve as customer interface • Provide customer service • Conduct climate outreach and education • Develop partnerships • Utilize available tools for customer interface

12. NOAA Climate Services (Overview) Sea Grant NOAA RISA RCC SC Regional Collaboration Efforts What we have now NWS • Forecasts • Monitoring • Analysis • Data archive • Policy • Training • Outreach • Partnership • Development • International • Flood and flow • Customer interface • Forecast improvements • Decision support tool • development • Coastal climatologies • Applications research • Regional and local • expertise • Policy support • Data integration • Data quality control OAR NESDIS NOS NOAA NOAA Partners Regional Initiatives Under Development

13. Future Directions • Establishment of a NWS Climate Services Program Plan • Enhance coordination of the user requirements process for all NWS climate services • Enhance the linkages between NWS climate and hydrologic services and NIDIS • Execute pilot projects for climate and coasts • Support regional collaboration efforts established by NOAA • Support the efforts to establish the National Climate Service

14. Economic Stimulus Bill • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Satellites and Sensors: $600 million for satellite development and acquisitions, including climate sensors and climate modeling.  • NASA: $400 million to put more scientists to work doing climate change research, including Earth science research recommended by the National Academies, satellite sensors that measure solar radiation critical to understanding climate change, and a thermal infrared sensor to the Landsat Continuing Mapper necessary for water management, particularly in the western states;