The study may have large implications for the climate and weather forecasts made by ocean models in the future. 

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 the ocean, atmosphere, and shallow clouds work together to create the weather and climate we live in.

New research, funded by CPO's Climate Variability and Predictability Program, shows that warming of the Indo-Pacific Ocean is altering rainfall patterns from the tropics to the United States, contributing to declines in rainfall on the United States west and east coasts.

A research team funded in part by CPO's MAPP and CVP Programs investigate the effect of global warming on the MJO. 

NOAA Research's Climate Program Office is pleased to announce that its Fiscal Year 2020 grant competitions are now open.