Links for The High Plains Region
Environment > Climate and Weather
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- the primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Great Plains Regional Center for Global Environmental Change
- devoted to interdisciplinary research that develops quantitative information on the role of key ecosystems as sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
- High Plains Regional Climate Center
- climate data and maps for High Plains area
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
- promoting the understanding of global environmental change
- NOAAServer
- access to distributed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data and information
- NRCS National Water and Climate Center
- development and transfer of water and climate information and technology which support natural resource conservation
- Climate Information Retrieval by State
- from NRCS National Water and Climate Center
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- a focus for research on atmospheric and related science problems
- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
- weather data archive
- National Drought Mitigation Center
- helps people and institutions implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought
- National Severe Storms Laboratory
- dedicated to improving severe weather warnings and forecasts in order to save lives and reduce property damage
- National Weather Service
- forecasts, watches, warnings, and the most recently observed weather conditions
- National Weather Service Cumulative Precipitation Page
- images of precipitation distribution across the nation and individual states for different periods (for example, past day, past week, past month, past year, etc.)
- National Weather Service Forecast Selection Page
- Central Region Headquarters
- US National Assessment of Climate Change
- a detailed overview of the consequences of climate change and mechanisms for adaptation