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
The International Academy of the Digital Arts & Sciences has chosen NOAA’s Climate Explorer as one of five nominees for Best Visual Design/Function in the annual Webby Awards for online excellence.
Climate Explorer nominated for Best Visual Design/Function in the annual Webby Awards Read More »
Showing the value of ocean underwater glider data used to forecast Hurricane Gonzalo in 2014, a CPO-supported study highlights the impact of gliders to improve hurricane intensity forecasts.
In a paper published on the Journal of Climate, Chiodi (University of Washington) and Harrison (PMEL) analyze the value of wind stress information from the TAO/TRITON array, which has been deployed for over two decades.
Two decades of buoys observations in the Pacific Read More »
The California Current is a highly productive eastern boundary current that supports a diverse array of economically important marine wildlife and fisheries.
A climatology of the California Current System from a network of underwater gliders Read More »
The crippling wintertime droughts that struck California from 2013 to 2015, as well as this year’s unusually wet California winter, appear to be associated with the same phenomenon: a distinctive wave pattern that emerges in the upper atmosphere and circles the globe.
Scientists link California droughts and floods to distinctive atmospheric waves Read More »
“The idea is that climate change doesn’t merely increase the overall likelihood of heat waves, say, or the volume of rainfall — it also changes the flow of weather itself. By altering massive planet-scale air patterns like the jet stream (pictured above), which flows in waves from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere, a warming planet causes our weather to become more stuck in place. This means that a given weather pattern, whatever it may be, may persist for longer, thus driving extreme droughts, heat waves, downpours and more.”
Planetary Wave Resonance may cause Heat Waves to last longer Read More »
A new study by Hye-Mi Kim (Stony Brook University) and other researchers has found that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which changes slowly and is usually predictable many months in advance, affects how frequently atmospheric rivers make landfall along the western U.S. coast.
Atmospheric rivers more frequent and intense during certain phases of ENSO, study says Read More »
A CPO-led effort to improve municipal planning convened experts and representatives from various federal agencies, NGOs, and regional and local entities in Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
Round tables for improved use of climate science in municipal planning Read More »
A new NOAA report describes high-priority recommendations to improve the way NOAA develops and operates models.
NOAA publishes agency-wide framework to optimize and accelerate modeling Read More »
A seasonal multi-model forecast system can produce skillful predictions of sea surface temperature in the California Current System up to 4 months in advance, according to a new study published in Climate Dynamics.