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Stratospheric variability influences emissions levels at Earth's surface, study says

January 7, 2020

The new research in Nature Geoscience suggests that global budget estimates of ozone-depleting substances as well as other trace gases like methane could be improved by accounting for the ... ...

NOAA launches major field campaign to improve weather and climate prediction

January 7, 2020

Today, scientists using multiple human-piloted and autonomous vehicles, buoys, radar, and computer modeling embarked on a six-week scientific campaign off the island of Barbados to investigate how ... ...

Catastrophic wildfires in southeastern Australia in 2019-20

Rebecca Lindsey | January 3, 2020

Terrible wildfires raged through parts of southeastern Australia in the first days of 2020.

Can you trust your memory of the snows of Christmas past?

Rebecca Lindsey | December 24, 2019

Just for fun, we asked the experts at the Rutgers Snow Lab to show us what their data (based on NOAA satellite images) had to say about whether the number of snow-covered days during the week of Christmas has changed at all across the U.S. in the past 50 years.

A visit to the zoo: climate patterns that can precede ENSO

Emily Becker | December 23, 2019

Some oceanic and atmospheric patterns can give us an early heads-up that El Niño might be on its way.

Headwaters Economics and Great Lakes RISA team release report on using economics to support climate adaptation

December 20, 2019

The new report includes strategies, methods, and case studies of cities that have used economic data and methods to advance climate adaptation programs. ...

A conversation with Leander Anderegg: NOAA postdoc, tree physiologist, outdoorsman

John Dos Passos Coggin | December 19, 2019

This Q&A features tree expert Leander Anderegg and what he is learning about how some of the West's iconic trees—including Colorado's quaking aspen and California's blue oak—survive or succumb to drought.

Preparing for extreme sea levels is different depending on location and time, new study finds

December 18, 2019

Using historical data from tide gauges that line U. S. coasts, researchers funded by CPO's Climate Observations and Monitoring Program created an extreme sea level indicator that identifies how much . ...

December 2019 ENSO update: neutral, rinse, repeat

Tom Di Liberto | December 12, 2019

ENSO-neutral is expected to last through spring 2020. See why in our latest ENSO blog and stay for some ENSO trivia.

2019 Arctic Report Card: At gateways to the Arctic, northern fish are retreating

Rebecca Lindsey | December 10, 2019

As Arctic waters warm, fish and marine mammals are migrating in search of their preferred habitats and food sources. Some species are gaining habitat, while others are being squeezed out by new arriva ...

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