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Latest News

News items are listed in chronological order:

Posted March 5th, 2009
New FAQ on common problems when using GIS.

Posted October 13th, 2008
New version of the GIS Climate Change portal has been released in September 2008.
New features and products include 1) downscaled projections of monthly mean temperature and precipitation for the contiguous United States, 2) a tutorial on how to compare model output of a present-day climate simulations with future climate projections in a GIS, and 3) a global polygon layer representing CCSM irregularly-spaced grid cells.

Posted August 22nd, 2008
NCAR's 3rd community workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts was held in Boulder on October 27-29, 2008. Workshop final report will be posted shortly.

Posted January 31th, 2008
Global climate change scenarios from the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) for Air Temperature is available in KML.

Posted August 13th, 2007
Online GIS tutorials on bringing weather and climate data in ArcGIS now available

Posted June 31, 2007
Please join us the second Wednesday of each month of UCAR's GIS User Group meeting.

 

 

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