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VOTING CLOSED APRIL 20 The International Academy of the Digital Arts & Sciences has chosen NOAA’s  Climate Explorer  as one of five nominees for Best Visual Design/Function in the annual ...

VOTING CLOSED APRIL 20 The International Academy of the Digital Arts & Sciences has chosen NOAA’s  Climate Explorer  as one of five nominees for Best Visual Design/Function in the annual ...

VOTING CLOSED APRIL 20 The International Academy of the Digital Arts & Sciences has chosen NOAA’s Climate Explorer as one of five nominees for Best Visual Design/Function in the annual Webby Awards …

A study published as an early online version on Weather and Forecasting concluded that combining standard ocean observations (satellite, ship-based, buoys, drifters) with underwater glider data ...

A study published as an early online version on Weather and Forecasting concluded that combining standard ocean observations (satellite, ship-based, buoys, drifters) with underwater glider data ...

A study published as an early online version on Weather and Forecasting concluded that combining standard ocean observations (satellite, ship-based, buoys, drifters) with underwater glider data ...

A paper by Rudnick et al. published in Progress in Oceanography includes a climatology  of the California Current System, a current moving south along the U.S. West Coast. The authors used data ...

The crippling wintertime droughts that struck California from 2013 to 2015, as well as this year's unusually wet California winter, appear to be associated with the same phenomenon: a distinctive ...

The crippling wintertime droughts that struck California from 2013 to 2015, as well as this year's unusually wet California winter, appear to be associated with the same phenomenon: a distinctive …

Colloquially known as “rivers in the sky”, atmospheric rivers are fast-moving bands of moisture that supply the westernU.S. with a large portion of its annual precipitation, but also sometimes cause…