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The Wisconsin State Climatology Office is affiliated with the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The office manages data for climate monitoring, provides
climate information to residents (and state agencies) of Wisconsin, demonstrates the value of climate
information in the decision making process to the user community, and conducts applied
climate research.
This office is a partner with Midwestern Regional Climate Center in providing climate services to the public.
Collaborations with
Wisconsin Initiative on Climate
Change Impacts (WICCI)
research on climate impacts are now underway.
If you would like assistance finding the climate data you want, visit our Guide to Wisconsin Weather and Climate Data.
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Climate Change
Climate Literacy
A primer designed to help the public understand the essential principles of climate sciences, including how climate
influences them and how they influence climate.
IPCC 2007 Report:
The latest on human-caused global warming and future worsening,
according to six years of new observations and analyses in this most
authoritative report.
Announcements from US
Climate Change Science Program (2008)
Global Climate Change Report Released --
The Federal government released a new report entitled "Global
Climate Change Impacts in the United States" on 16 June 2009,
More information including with access to the executive summary,
regional results, and the full report can be obtained from the
U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Summer Arrives in Badger State
See our Summer Page
25th Anniversary of Severe Tornado Damage in Southern Wisconsin
A vicious tornado
traveled areas to the west and north of Madison on the night of 7-8
June 1984. This F-5 tornado (on the Fujita Scale) devastated the
community of Barneveld (Iowa County), and together with its weaker
siblings, affected communities to the west, north and northeast of
Madison.
AOS Professor Charles Anderson, the first African-American Ph.D. in
meteorology, studied the debris transport, which extended 100 miles
northeastward.
The National Weather Service Office at Milwaukee Sullivan has an
informative meteorological link at:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/?n=barneveldf5tornado
In memory of a true Wisconsin
climatologist
Reid A. Bryson, 1920-2008.
Courtesy, the Archaeoclimatology Team, Center for Climatic
Research
Reid was not only interested in Wisconsin's weather and climate, but
he will be remembered as founder of the University of Wisconsin's
Department of Meteorology in 1948, founder of the Center for Climate
Research and its endowed Climate, People, and Environment Program, and
founder of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His fertile
mind gave birth to a wide range of studies and opinions on the earth's
climate and it peoples. His legacy survives in University of
Wisconsin research and teaching activities extending to other
disciplines.
He is survived by his wife Frannie, and children Ann, Bill, Bob
and Tom.
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