Evaporative demand is the amount of water that the atmosphere can absorb from the planet’s surface—atmospheric thirst. When it rises, so does the risk of drought and wildfire. A new study has found increases in evaporative demand across most of the contiguous United States, especially in the Rio Grande and Lower Colorado River basins.
On August 7, 2022, NOAA employees and residents of Maryland’s Montgomery County participated in the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) “Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign.”
A new study examines the relationship between water and climate over the past two millennia. The results demonstrate rapid adjustments in precipitation in response to Earth’s warming and cooling.
A paper in the Marine Technology Society Journal , authored by Stephen R. Piotrowicz and David Legler of CPO’s Climate Observation Division (COD), describes the eight elements of Global Ocean ...
A challenge for climate models is representing how wind direction veers at different heights as a result of friction at Earth’s surface, or “wind-turning.” A new study evaluates eight models to see how accurately they estimate wind-turning angles compared to observations.
The year-long MOSAiC expedition collected unprecedented environmental data from the Central Arctic Ocean. The research team has just published three overview articles on the MOSAiC atmosphere, snow and sea ice, and ocean.
When white lesions began appearing at the famously intact Flower Garden Banks coral reef system, scientists knew a rapid, multi-agency, collaborative response was vital to learn from this coral disease outbreak.
Three leaders from the weather and climate research communities share their perspective on how best to address the subseasonal to seasonal prediction challenge in a new open-access paper in Nature …