III.9: NOAA Climate Services Portal

Enhance access to NOAA climate information

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NOAA is enhancing its climate information Web presence in response to customer requirements, emerging needs for improved decision-making capabilities across all sectors of society facing impacts from climate variability and change, and the value of leveraging climate data and services to support research and public education. NOAA has initiated development of a NOAA Climate Services Portal (NCS Portal) with the goal to become the “go-to” website for NOAA’s climate data, products, and services for all users. The NCS portal is currently available as a prototype, which only scratches the surface of the many climate datasets, products, and services available across NOAA. The prototype highlights some of most popular datasets and products based on customer usage of the data, focused on several datasets and products from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, Coastal Services Center, and Climate Prediction Center, among others. NOAA plans to gather user feedback through focus groups, usability studies, and informal communications. Over the next several years, NOAA will expand the NCS Portal’s scope and functionality in a user-driven manner to enhance the access to, and extensibility of, climate data and services, timely articles and information, education resources, and tools for engagement and decision-making.

Stakeholder(s):

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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