NASA, NOAA Announce 2015 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will discuss the release of new data on 2015 global temperatures, and the most important weather and climate events of the year, during a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 20.

The teleconference panelists are:

Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York
Thomas R. Karl, director of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina, and chair of the Subcommittee on Global Change Research for the U.S. Global Change Research Program in Washington

Media can participate in the teleconference by calling 888-790-1804 (toll-free in the United States and Canada) or 415-228-4885 (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/earthrightnow

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Dwayne Brown

Headquarters, Washington

202-358-1726

dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov

Michael Cabbage / Leslie McCarthy

Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York

212-678-5516 / 5507

mcabbage@nasa.gov / leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov

John Ewald

NOAA Communications, Washington

240-429-6127

john.ewald@noaa.gov

Last Updated: Jan. 15, 2016

Editor: Karen Northon