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Heat waves and cold spells aren’t always as dramatic as hurricanes and tornadoes, but they can be just as dangerous. New research might soon enable forecasting of these events months in advance.
Forest Service personnel have turned to NOAA’s Climate Explorer tool for projections of future climate conditions. Available from the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, the tool provides climate projections for every county in the contiguous United States.
On October 5, 2021, retired former NOAA scientist Syukuro “Suki” Manabe was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his contributions to climate science.
A heat-tolerant algae found in some tropical Pacific corals can make reefs more resilient to heatwave events, according to an exciting new discovery reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
So you think you know what’s in the ocean? Even with decades of scientific research, more than 80 percent of the ocean remains unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored. That’s a lot considering more than 70 percent of the globe is covered by the ocean. NOAA is using Argo floats, gliders, drifters, and moored buoys to better understand the ocean depth
The Beaufort Sea, the largest Arctic Ocean freshwater reservoir, has increased its freshwater content by 40 percent over the past two decades. How and where this water will flow into the Atlantic Ocean matters in local and global ocean conditions, including the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
There’s a saying among climate scientists: What happens in the Arctic doesn’t necessarily stay in the Arctic. That’s especially true when a sudden warming of the polar stratosphere -- the ...
Scientists are gearing up for a busy season at sea with three research cruises departing in the month of February. Cruises will collect samples from the surface to the depths of the ocean and improve our understanding of ocean circulation, carbon uptake, biological conditions, and climate variability
The California Current System is a southward-moving, cold-water current that causes seasonal upwelling and eddies. A new modeling study finds that eddies are projected to become more variable and intense toward the end of the century compared to a 1980-2010 baseline.