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“We could see it unfolding right out the window. We knew it was moving into a highly populated area, and we knew people who lived there.” A new story map describes Marshall Fire from the perspective of National Weather Service meteorologists.
On December 15, 1976, the tanker Argo Merchant ran aground near Nantucket Shoals in Massachusetts and broke in half several days later. The entire 7.7 million gallons of heavy fuel oil it carried…
A post for map geeks. How to turn an animation of a year's worth of daily rain maps into a single picture.
How are heat waves over Yangtze River valley associated with atmospheric quasi-biweekly oscillation?
A study published in Climate Dynamics analyzes the characteristics and formations of heat waves associated with an atmospheric phenomenon known as the quasi-biweekly oscillation (QBWO), an ...
While much is understood about greenhouse gas contributions to surface warming, less is understood about impacts on ocean circulation. A new study uses a climate model to quantify the role of changes to the wind-driven ocean circulation onto global air temperature warming.
For over 20 years, a fleet of almost 4,000 Argo floats have measured ocean temperature and salinity across the globe. The eventual plan calls for floats to be evenly spaced across the global oceans, but a new study examines whether uniform spacing is the most effective float configuration.
The capacity for moisture in the air usually increases with temperature, but humidity unexpectedly decreased in the southwest from 1970-2019, effectively drying the air during the summer forest fire season.
Among the most important summer climate events in the Northern Hemisphere, the South Asian summer monsoon affects more than a billion people. A new study measures how changes in global mean surface temperature will affect the monsoon.