In honor of Women's History Month, NOAA is highlighting a few of its female scientists and funded researchers who are making significant strides in the climate sciences and other science fields. The following interview is with Dr. Elizabeth Barnes, Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. Her research is funded in part by the NOAA Climate Program Office’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program. She focuses on climate variability and change, and how data science can help improve our understanding.

New research papers on different aspects of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) represent the latest contributions of CPO’s Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program to the international Years of Maritime Continent campaign.  

Recent research suggests a more active carbon dioxide (CO₂) cycle in high northern latitude ecosystems as a result of Arctic climate change.

New research describes the large-scale state and evolution of the atmosphere and ocean during the 2018 Propagation of Intraseasonal Tropical Oscillations (PISTON) field campaign.

A new study provides an updated and more comprehensive view on historical hydroclimatic trends by quantifying how much of the changes in those trends can be attributed to external forcing vs. internal variability.