Global carbon emissions are projected to bounce back to 36.4 billion metric tons this year after an unprecedented drop caused by the response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to an annual report by the Global Carbon Project.
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Analysis of the last millennium reanalysis climate reconstruction shows a clear connection between Southwest drought and La Niña sea-surface temperature patterns. However, this pattern only ...
Research funded by CPO’s Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) program has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate . In this paper, authors Richard Seager (Lamont-Doherty ...
Research funded by CPO’s Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) program has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Climate . In this paper, authors Richard Seager (Lamont-Doherty ...
The research recently published in Science Advances found that atmospheric rivers accounted for 84% of flood damages, or $42.6 billion, across the western United States from 1978-2017.
Colloquially known as “rivers in the sky”, atmospheric rivers are fast-moving bands of moisture that supply the westernU.S. with a large portion of its annual precipitation, but also sometimes cause…
Many people know about the effect of atmospheric rivers on the Western U.S., but they affect the Eastern U.S., too. Wintertime atmospheric river frequency over the Eastern U.S. has risen in the past four decades.
Floods and landslides along the U.S. West Coast in January 2023 have happened thanks to an atmospheric river. Satellites can easily spot these rivers over the ocean, observing their structure is harder over land. So NOAA has developed on-the-ground atmospheric river observatories.
The World Meteorological Organization has declared 2023’s Tropical Cyclone Freddy to be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record, at 36 days. Freddy covered a distance nearly a third of Earth’s circumference.
As NOAA adopts 1991–2020 as the new 30-year period of record, “average” hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean will increase. Average activity for the new period of record means 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes.