El Niño and La Niña affect weather in the United States, but the connection is a long chain of ocean-to-atmosphere links that climate models don’t always capture. New techniques may help scientists evaluate model accuracy.
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Example week 3-4 temperature outlook The Climate Prediction Center's week 3-4 temperature outlook for February 24-March 9, 2018. CPC forecasters regularly consult Johnson's new tool to produce …
Thanks to a team of scientists led by Nat Johnson, an Associate Research Scholar at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) and the Cooperative Institute for Climate Science at Princeton…
Farmers, ranchers, and water resource managers will now have more time to prepare for potentially damaging drought conditions thanks to a new early warning product now available online . Developed …
As another cloud of Saharan dust swirled across the Atlantic Ocean towards the southern United States, one of NOAA’s newest models provided a more accurate forecast of where the air quality ...
A newly published study projects an increase in the variability of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity, leading to more active and inactive hurricane seasons and less near-normal seasons.
NOAA’s newest hurricane model, the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS), advanced the accuracy of hurricane forecasts and supported community preparedness actions during the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
A new OAR/Climate Program Office (CPO) Report, summarizing key outcomes of the May 2015 NOAA Climate Reanalysis Task Force Technical Workshop held at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate ...