Friday, January 13, 2017

[NASA HQ News] NASA, NOAA to Announce 2016 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

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  January 13, 2017 
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-003
NASA, NOAA to Announce 2016 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will provide the annually-scheduled release of data on global temperatures and discuss the most important climate trends of 2016 during a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 18.

The teleconference panelists are:

  • Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York
  • Deke Arndt, chief of the global monitoring branch of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina

Media can participate in the teleconference by calling 888-323-5258 (toll-free in the United States and Canada) or 415-228-4837 (international) and use the passcode "climate."

Audio of the briefing, as well as supporting graphics, will stream live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

NASA and NOAA are two keepers of the world's temperature data and independently produce a record of Earth's surface temperatures, as well as changes based on historical observations over oceans and land.

For more information about NASA's Earth science programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/earth

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Michael Cabbage / Leslie McCarthy
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John Leslie
NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, Silver Spring, Md.
301-713-0214
john.leslie@noaa.gov

Brady Phillips
NOAA Headquarters, Washington
202-407-1298
brady.phillips@noaa.gov

 

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