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First FIREX-AQ science flight takes off 30 July 2019

First FIREX-AQ science flight takes off

Supported by NOAA’s AC4 Program, on July 24th the FIREX-AQ summer 2019 field campaign launched its first flight out of Boise, Idaho to study the impact of wildfires and prescribed burns on air quality and climate.

NOAA's Climate Program Office Announces New Funding Opportunity 24 July 2019

NOAA's Climate Program Office Announces New Funding Opportunity

Learn more about the Office's Fiscal Year 2020 grant competitions

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

Airborne Research Shows East Coast Cities Emitting Twice as Much Methane as Estimated 23 July 2019

Airborne Research Shows East Coast Cities Emitting Twice as Much Methane as Estimated

This research was supported, in part, by the Climate Program Office's AC4 program.  

Celebrating a Hidden Female Climate Science Pioneer 19 July 2019

Celebrating a Hidden Female Climate Science Pioneer

NOAA celebrated the 200th birthday of Eunice Newton Foote, hidden climate science pioneer and suffragette, whose research foreshadowed the discovery of Earth’s greenhouse effect.

Spatial Distribution of Sulfate from Volcanic Eruptions Influences Global Climate Impact 19 July 2019

Spatial Distribution of Sulfate from Volcanic Eruptions Influences Global Climate Impact

A research team funded by the Climate Program Office’s Climate Observations and Monitoring Program has published a new paper describing how the distribution of a volcanic eruption’s dispersal of sulfate aerosols impacts components of the climate system on regional and global scales. The paper, published online June 20, 2019 in Geophysical Research Letters, is entitled “Climate Impacts From Large Volcanic Eruptions in a High-Resolution Climate Model: The Importance of Forcing Structure.” 

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