Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Climate Extremes Index: Climate Extremes Index for the Northeast

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  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Abstract

    How has the climate changed over the past 50 or more years? In what ways and by how much? Many people, including climatologists, have been struggling with these questions for some time now, not only for scientific interest but also to aid in policy decisions (IPCC 2001) and to inform the general public. In order to answer these questions, it is important to obtain comprehensive and intuitive information which allows interested parties to understand the scientific basis for confidence, or lack thereof, in the present understanding of the climate system. One tool, first developed as a framework for quantifying observed changes in climate within the contiguous United States, is the U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI). The U.S. CEI is based on an aggregate set of conventional climate extreme indicators which, at the present time, include the following types of data: - monthly maximum and minimum temperature - daily precipitation - monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) - landfalling tropical storm and hurricane wind velocity

Keywords

  • cei, climate change, climate extremes index , noaa, northeast,

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    • Title: Climate Extremes Index for the Northeast
    • Start Date: 1910-01-01
    • Description: See NOAA for more information on how these indices were computed and how to interpret them: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/cei/definition

    • Purpose: Summarizing and presenting a complex set of multivariate and multidimensional climate changes in the United States so that the results could be easily understood and used in policy decisions made by nonspecialists in the field.

    • Condensed Title: Z1240_2494_R5ZJNE

    • Object Name: VMC.1240.2494

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: NOAA. Climate Extremes Index for the Northeast. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/climateextremes/dataset/climate-extremes-index-for-northeast

    • Online Distribution: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/climateextremes/dataset/climate-extremes-index-for-northeast

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      Attribute Name: Date
      • Label: Date
      • Storage Type: date
      • Measurment Type: datetime
      • String Format: YYYY
      Attribute Name: Percent
      • Label: Percent
      • Storage Type: decimal

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