A study partly funded by the CPO quantified long term trends in adaptation to temperature increases in New York City using historical patterns of temperature and mortality, as well as temperature ...
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For the first time, scientists have combined sea level rise projections with projections of changes in coastal storms to simulate future flooding and storm surge in New York City. A new NOAA ...
NOAA OAR played a significant role in the recently-convened AGU Chapman Conference on the California Drought, held in Irvine, California during April 20-22. The conference was convened by Marty ...
Process understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) has increased dramatically over the past decade, but many observed features of the MJO are not well explained by physical mechanisms ...
New research titled: “Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydorxyl parity,” appeared in the Sept. 11 issue of Nature. The research, which is about the abundance of the hydroxyl radical on ...
In the tropical Pacific, year-to-year changes in chlorophyll is dominated by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. El Niño can sharply reduce the regional supply of nutrients, limiting phytoplankton growth. GFDL’s new Earth System Model captures not only the onset and extent of chlorophyll anomalies during El Niño events, but also a pronounced post-El Niño “chlorophyll rebound” that produces positive equatorial Pacific chlorophyll anomalies in the summer following El Niño events.
Recent evidence suggests that detritus from fishes and gelatinous zooplankton may have a disproportionate impact on the ocean’s biological pump because they sink approximately 10 times faster than bulk detritus.
Key Findings Improved representation of plankton food webs, organic matter remineralization, and linkages between the land, ocean and atmosphere yielded skillful global ocean carbon cycle and…
CPO-funded research analyzing the implications of ocean mesoscale eddies and the atmosphere for western boundary currents was published in Nature . Current climate models underestimate western ...