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Assessing flood hazards on the U. S. East Coast considering sea level rise and tropical cyclone activity

October 5, 2015

A new study published in Nature Climate Change on Sept. 21, 2015, and supported by NOAA's Climate Program Office employs a unique approach to assess flood risk by combining consideration of ... ...

Study Finds New York City at Increased Threat of Tropical Cyclones and Coastal Flooding

October 1, 2015

A cross CPO-funded study presents evidence of a dramatic increase in the frequency of large flooding events in New York City due to sea level rise and the size and intensity of tropical storms. The .. ...

Emissions from thawing permafrost add trillions in economic impacts

October 1, 2015

Greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost could result in an additional $43 trillion in economic impacts by the end of the twenty-second century, according to a new study by ... ...

Not what I ordered: How El Niño is like a bad bartender

Deke Arndt | October 1, 2015

NCEI's Deke Arndt blogs about how El Niño—like an erratic bartender—doesn't always bring the country the seasonal climate we'd expect.

This summer's West Coast algal bloom was unusual. What would usual look like?

Tom Di Liberto | September 30, 2015

Tom Di Liberto explains how algae and other phytoplankton usually behave.

NOAA: El Niño may accelerate nuisance flooding

September 29, 2015

Many mid-Atlantic and West Coast communities could see the highest number of nuisance flooding days on record through April due to rising sea levels and more frequent storm surge, compounded by El Niñ ...

El Niño from the other side of the Pacific pond

Dr. Andrew Watkins | September 24, 2015

El Niño is a global phenomenon. Guest blogger Dr. Andrew Watkins shines some light on El Niño's impact across the world in Australia.

Nearly 2.5 million acres burned across US in August 2015

Caitlyn Kennedy | September 22, 2015

Drought conditions remain dire in the West, boosting the U.S. total burned area to nearly 2.5 million acres.

The climatic consequences of a Pine Island Glacier collapse

September 21, 2015

The Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica's fastest-melting glacier, is rapidly retreating and discharging increasing volumes of freshwater into the Southern Ocean. This freshwater can have a large-scale .. ...

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Sea Level Pressure Anomalies in the Western Pacific

September 17, 2015

Research supported by NOAA CPO's Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) program and the Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) program has been accepted for publication in the .. ...

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