Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2019 during a media teleconference at 12:15 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 15.
The briefing will take place at the 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Boston.
The teleconference participants 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 800-369-2090 (toll-free in the United States and Canada) or 1-203-827-7030 (international) and use the passcode CLIMATE. Audio of the briefing with supporting graphics will stream live at:
The supporting graphics will also be available at:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/briefings
NASA and NOAA are two keepers of the world’s temperature data and independently produce a record of Earth’s surface temperatures and changes based on historical observations over oceans and land.
For more information about NASA’s Earth science programs, visit:
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Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov
Peter Jacobs
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0535
peter.jacobs@nasa.gov
John Bateman
NOAA Satellite and Information Service, Silver Spring, Md.
202-424-0929
nesdis.pa@noaa.gov