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Our Office:
The Office of the Texas State Climatologist (OSC) is housed in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University. The OSC serves as a clearinghouse for climate information for the state of Texas. The OSC issues regular climate updates and conducts research on climate monitoring and climate prediction in Texas and the southern United States. The OSC is an AASC-Recognized State Climate Office. The OSC receives its base funding from Texas A&M University.
The State Climatologist is John Nielsen-Gammon, who became State Climatologist in 2000 following the retirement of John Griffiths. Dr. Nielsen-Gammon maintains a climate-related blog called Climate Abyss for the Houston Chronicle, which is updated regularly. Also affiliated with OSC are graduate assistant Brent McRoberts and undergraduate assistants Andrew Cook and Justin Womack.
Currently active research projects include a study of the local and regional causes of summertime drought in Texas, an assessment of meteorological conditions that lead to high levels of air pollution in eastern Texas, the development of tools to better monitor rapidly-changing drought conditions at the county scale, the production of a decade-by-decade climate atlas for Texas, and an investigation of decade-scale historical variations in climate in Texas and New Mexico.
Pricing Guide for OSC Services
The following are links to Texas climatic resources:
Texas Weather Connection
The General Climate of Texas
National Climatic Data Center
Southern Regional Climate Center
Other Climate Resources
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