Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
CPO’s ERB, AC4, and CVP programs, in partnership with NESDIS STAR, are announcing four new 3-year projects originally funded in Fiscal Year 2023.
Inflation Reduction Act will support NOAA, partner research to advance long-range projections of tropical storms, heat waves, ocean changes
CPO’s role in co-sponsoring greenhouse gas (GHG) research and convening stakeholders supports the National Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring and Information Service outlines a coordinated, sustained effort to improve GHG data and information across federal agencies.
The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) represents the latest science in assessing changes in the climate, its national and regional impacts, and options to reduce present and future risk. Every five years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program releases a new National Climate Assessment. The newest assessment, NCA5, is a resource to understand how drought
NCA5: Drought and Climate Change in 10 Maps Read More »
In a changing climate, the intensity, duration, and frequency of droughts may change. This poses new challenges for drought assessment. To discuss these challenges, the CPO-led National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Climate Hubs co-hosted the Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate Technical Working Meeting on February 28–March
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A report has just been published detailing the accomplishments of the NOAA Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Workshop, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder in April 2023. The Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Team organized this workshop, a group dedicated to advancing cross-OAR and NOAA-wide sea ice modeling activities that is sponsored by CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) and Climate
On September 28, 2023, Mark Shafer, Deputy Director for the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) and Associate Professor in Geography & Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma, participated in the White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities. The Summit, which was announced by President Biden earlier this summer, brought together local, state,
It is well known that within the Maritime Continent, a meteorological term for the region between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, enhanced water mixing processes from tides cause colder sea surface temperatures. An important question is exactly how much this process contributes to broader ocean and climate conditions. A new study, supported by the Climate
Apart from wildfires, air quality and health challenges are also created by planned burns in grasslands, shrublands, and farmland. Few studies have investigated how different crops or plant types may contribute to air pollution when burned. The Climate Program Office’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Program supported a new study that looks into emissions of
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A new CVP-funded study finds that data assimilation in tropical Pacific models can improve sea surface temperature, but may not benefit predictions of mixed layer depth, providing important context for the most accurate and efficient ways to produce forecasts in this region.
How Does Data Assimilation Impact Subseasonal Tropical Pacific Forecasts? Read More »