A CLEAN manuscript has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geoscience Education theme issue on climate literacy. In recent years various climate change education efforts have been ...
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In winter, extratropical cyclones (ETCs) bring risky weather: heavy rain and snow, and strong winds. New research will employ advanced climate models to predict how ETCs might change in the future.
What’s behind the recent droughts in Hawaii? A new study using NOAA’s primary weather-prediction model shows what can—and cannot—be inferred from available data. Not every event has an apparent and simple “first cause.”
Larger than Vermont, an underwater seascape of cold-water coral mounds offshore the southeast United States coast has been deemed the largest deep-sea coral reef habitat discovered to date, according to a paper recently published in the scientific journal Geomatics.
The La Niña weather pattern can cause droughts in the southern United States, including parts of eastern Texas. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Two new NOAA-funded ...
A special issue of the open-access journal Climate Risk Management focuses on the role that boundary organizations—organizations that help broker scientific information between scientists and ...
On Friday, April 7, 2023, NASA launched the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (EVI-1) (TEMPO) satellite mission from the Kennedy Space Center. TEMPO will provide high resolution air quality data on an hourly basis across North America.
High-hazard structures such as dams and nuclear power plants have been engineered to withstand floods from unlikely but possible precipitation, but precipitation estimates are based on outdated work.
The product will help scientists identify whether an extreme heat event tomorrow is significant or actually “extreme” relative to the historical record. It may also help assess extreme heat impacts …