Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

Speaker: Rick Thoman, ACCAP | We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for the coming month and season.

Crane Johnson with the NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center will review break-up basics and an overview of current conditions. ACCAP Alaska Climate Specialist Rick Thoman will provide the latest subseasonal outlooks that help inform the outlook.

Speaker: Rick Thoman, ACCAP | We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for the coming month and season.

In this presentation Jeremy Littell will describe snowpack projections from statistically downscaled precipitation and snow day fraction developed for Alaska.

Weather and Climate Highlights and Impacts, Dec 2019 - Feb 2020

Overall, the winter period, December 2019 to February 2020, was colder than normal in almost all of Alaska and most of central and northern YT and NT.

In Feb 2020, ACCAP played a prominent role in leading the Business in a Changing Climate track of the Juneau Business Innovation Summit. ACCAP lead, John Walsh delivered a plenary talk as did Alison Bidlack, Director of the Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center. ACCAP lead, Sarah Trainor facilitated an “ask an expert” session and exercise to help businesses begin thinking about…

Speaker: Rick Thoman, ACCAP | We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for the coming month and season.

Green-up, that time when leaves burst forth from Alaska’s deciduous trees has important implications for the seasonal ecology, society and even meteorology in the state.

This talk will focus on recent marine operations and shipping in the U.S. maritime Arctic and along the length of the Russian marine Arctic.

Speaker: Rick Thoman, ACCAP | We will review recent climate conditions around Alaska, review some forecast tools and finish up the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for the coming month and season.

May 2020 National Weather Service Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing

2020 Alaska River Break-up Preview

April 2020 National Weather Service Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing

VAWS: Future changes in Alaska snow conditions from statistically downscaled climate projections

ALASKA and NORTHWESTERN CANADA – Quarterly Climate & Weather Report: Dec 2019 – Feb 2020

ACCAP at the 2020 Juneau Innovation Summit: Business in a Changing Climate

March 2020 National Weather Service Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing

Forecasting Green-up: It’s seems simple…but it’s not

Recent Arctic Shipping in Bering Strait and the Russian Maritime Arctic

February 2020 National Weather Service Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing