As our nation is learning all too quickly, even the slightest change in our global climate can have profound effects on commerce, transportation, public safety, and the environment. Improved forecasting and better models can help mitigate the impact of floods, freezes, and droughts to our nation and the world.
Noblis has identified the study of Climate Change as one of its primary corporate initiatives. We are providing valuable support to federal agencies, military installations, and other nonprofit organizations that are seeking to find ways to address the effects of global climate change. Noblis is also investing its own research funds into studying this very serious and timely topic.
For many years, Noblis has supported the NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). STAR conducts scientific research on the use of satellite data for monitoring meteorological, climatological, terrestrial, and oceanographic environmental characteristics. Among our contributions was the pursuit of further knowledge regarding the prediction of climate change and variability. Quality climate data records are key to drawing reasonable conclusions about climate change. Noblis assisted STAR in developing and presenting a white paper to a Committee of the National Academy of Science, representing the scientific and user climate communities for the purpose of exchanging knowledge and soliciting advice from the scientific climate community on establishing a program for generating long-term climate data records. Our work resulted in NOAA beginning the creation of an operational infrastructure and an end-to-end process for creating, archiving, and distributing climate data records to the scientific community.