The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has proposed the creation of a new climate service to meet requests from sectors such as agriculture, energy and transportation for climate change information including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in U.S. waters.
NOAA said it intends to create a climate service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s climate science and service delivery capabilities.
Shere Abbott, associate director for environment and energy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy called the move "an important step forward in the larger effort of harnessing relevant capabilities across all the executive branch agencies to help citizens and businesses plan for and cope with climate change."
NOAA also has unveiled an new website – climate.gov – to act as a single point of entry for NOAA’s climate information, data, products and services, targeting various user groups such as policy leaders, scientists and applications-oriented data users and business users.