Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop (CPASW) The William and Ida Friday Center Chapel Hill, NC March 6, 2008 Integrated Water Resource Products for Drought in North Carolina Mark S. Brooks and Ryan P. Boyles State Climate Office of North Carolina NC State University
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Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop (CPASW)The William and Ida Friday Center
Chapel Hill, NCMarch 6, 2008
Integrated Water Resource Products for
Drought in North Carolina
Mark S. Brooks and Ryan P. Boyles
State Climate Office of North CarolinaNC State University
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Who Are We?
• The State Climate Office is where University researchers, extension scientists, government agencies (state and federal) come together to work on North Carolina weather and climate related issues.
• Applied group
• Housed at NCSU
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The Need for Water Resource Data
• Economically important
• Socially important
• Monitor conditions
• Policy
• Decision support
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Water Resource Data in NC
• Many different data sources
• Many different parameters
• Many different formats
• No one place to get it all (until now)
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