An international team has collected a high-resolution bathymetric and hydrothermal plume survey of the post-eruption caldera. Employing an uncrewed surface vessel, the survey was conducted by scientists and engineers across the globe.
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A new study finds that the location of the Madden–Julian Oscillation affects where precipitation-rich warm conveyor belts occur over the Pacific Ocean.
NOAA is expanding ocean measurements of carbon dioxide to under-observed, climate-critical regions by installing a new generation of sensors on the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and several other U.S. government and academic research vessels.
Clouds have both cooling and warming effects on climate, so a climate model's ability to parse cloud effects can reduce uncertainty in future climate projections. A new study distinguishes between climate models with low and high climate sensitivity related to clouds and aerosols.
New research finds that, although megadroughts in the southwestern United States may be unavoidable, reducing greenhouse gas emissions can mitigate conditions.
Weather in the Southeast this fall and winter is keeping up with the dry part of the typical La Niña pattern. Precipitation across most of the Southeast was "below" or "much below" normal for October-December.
The Global Drifter Program at AOML now has a publicly available server with free and open-source software. The server hosts both hourly and six-hour quality-controlled interpolated drifter datasets.
Scientists make informed predictions about climate and weather with operational models. Scientists test theories and improve forecasts with experimental models, including two new models: SHiELD and SPEAR.