VAWS: 2020 U.S. Climate Normals Project – Alaska Region

Name: VAWS: 2020 U.S. Climate Normals Project – Alaska Region
Start: 2021-05-05T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2021-05-05T12:00:00-08:00

May 5, 2021 @ 11:00 am to 12:00 pm AKDT

Speaker: Michael A. Palecki, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information

The public rollout of a new set of 30-year normals for the United States will take place on May 2021. This presentation will provide background on methodologies used to generate the normals and updates to the largely similar methods used in the 2010 normals processing. Changes in the 1991-2020 normals from 1981-2010 will be discussed. Normals products will be described. Finally, questions will be answered.

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