Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
A paper about increasing tropical cyclone intensity, published earlier this year and funded by a Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) project award, is ranked as #3 of Climate Papers Most Featured in the Media in 2020.
Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) and Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) funded a recent study which proposes a newly-named global teleconnection linking cooling temperature trends over Eurasia and warming trends in the Arctic to variability in low-frequency tropical sea surface temperatures.
Paleo-Climate Datasets Reveal a Tropically-driven Global Teleconnection Read More »
In representing the transport of ocean properties such as heat or salinity, the smaller, more complex details may matter significantly according to researchers funded in part by the Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program.
Investigating the Complex Science of Transport in Large-scale Ocean Currents Read More »
Researchers funded by both the CPO Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program and the Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) program rank the performance of over 30 CMIP5/6 climate models in reproducing observed atmosphere-sea ice relationships.
Ranking the Performance of Climate Models for Summertime Sea Ice Simulation Read More »
The CPO-led National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), has launched a redesigned U.S. Drought Portal to better serve stakeholders, decisionmakers, the media, and the public.
New Drought.gov a One-stop NOAA Resource for All Things Drought Read More »
Nathalí diving in a kelp forest in coastal waters near Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Photo courtesy of Nathalí Cordero Quirós. Nathalí Cordero Quirós, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explains what drove her to make her career as an Oceanographer. Dr. Quirós speaks of the impacts El Niño events have on
A conversation with Nathalí Cordero Quirós: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oceanographer Read More »
Building models that can appropriately capture plant-water interactions is critical in order to accurately simulate the onset and evolution of droughts and their cascading impacts throughout the Earth system.
Many climate decision support tools have been developed to support a variety of sectors and scales, but evaluation of such tools has only recently begun to take place. The study advances our knowledge of climate decision support tool utility evaluation and demonstrates the impact of a tool within planning contexts.
South Central RISA Study Finds their Climate Hazard Assessment Tool has High Utility Read More »
The guide provides foundational information about snowpack monitoring and data in the Rocky Mountain West to fill a long-standing stakeholder information need.
Western Water Assessment Releases New Snowpack Data User Guide for the Mountain West Read More »
A research team funded in part by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate (AC4) program observed and summarized the evolution of reactive oxidized nitrogen species in sampled from wildfire plumes as part of the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen (WE-CAN) field campaign.