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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.” 

Switching Up Your Communication Style 5 July 2019

Switching Up Your Communication Style

MAPP's Kanuss Fellow, Amara Huddleston, gives a few science communication tips in new blog post. Be sure to also check out the other posts from Knauss Fellows!

MAPP’s S2S Prediction Task Force Announces AGU Special Collection on S2S Research 28 June 2019

MAPP’s S2S Prediction Task Force Announces AGU Special Collection on S2S Research

Since 2016, the Subseaonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Task Force has been focusing efforts on bridging the skill gap between weather and seasonal prediction lead times. Publication of this special collection represents an important milestone for the group.

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