In a study funded in part by the NOAA Climate Program Office's MAPP program, researchers have constructed a 700-year record of the climate phenomenon known as El Niño that may be the most accurate ever made.
Monika Kopacz of NOAA's Earth System Science program participated in a full-day meeting with a group of 21 agency and U.S. Global Change Research Program representatives aimed at improving interagency coordination of nitrogen cycle research and identifying opportunities for interagency collaboration.
Today, NOAA announced Wayne Higgins, Ph.D., as director of NOAA’s Climate Program Office. Higgins, who has spent much of his career at the forefront of weather and climate prediction for NOAA’s National Weather Service, starts his new position July 28.
Americans’ health, security and economic wellbeing are tied to climate and weather. Every day, we see communities grappling with environmental challenges due to unusual or extreme events related to climate and weather.