Typhoon Merbok reached Alaska’s western coast on September 17, 2022. The unusual storm struck early in the season and formed far east of Japan, where sea surface temperatures have historically been too cool to support typhoon formation.
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A new report describes high-priority recommendations to improve the way NOAA develops and operates models. If implemented, unified modeling could reduce costs and optimize resources for NOAA, while …
A new report describes high-priority recommendations to improve the way NOAA develops and operates models. If implemented, unified modeling could reduce costs and optimize resources for NOAA, …
The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration (OER) has released the NOAA OER Deepwater Exploration Mapping Procedures Manual to describe the office’s approach to deepwater ocean exploration acoustic ...
The next seven years of NOAA’s research and development (R&D) will emphasize hazardous weather, ecosystem health and management, and data collection and modeling, as outlined in the newly-released …
NOAA has released the Spring 2022 Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook. The summary covers significant weather events, temperature and precipitation, and an outlook for summer 2022.
A newly released report highlights NOAA’s many notable scientific accomplishments from 2021. The report details research on how climate change could impact West Coast fisheries, and gathering information critical to improving hurricane forecasts, among more than 60 stories.
NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter journeyed away from Pascagoula, Mississippi for 90+ days and 12,700+ nautical miles to support of a key tropical Atlantic observing system.
Atlantic herring (above) have been underharvested two years in a row in the northeast region, potentially due to warming-driven distribution changes. Source: NOAA Seven leading U.S. ...