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
OAR’s Craig Mclean signed an Implementing Arrangement with Dr. Andi Sakya, Director-General of Indonesia’s Badan, Meteorologi, Klimatologi, Don Geofisika (BMKG) Weather-Climate Service on Sunday, January 10, 2016 during the 2016 Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in New Orleans.
U.S.-Indonesia Collaboration on Ocean-Climate Observations and Climate Services Support Read More »
A new CVP-supported paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research explores variability in ocean salinity and how that variability is connected to air-sea interactions, large-scale ocean circulations, and climate phenomena such as the MJO and ENSO.
A new study supported by AC4 and published in Science of the Total Environment explores the biophysical implications of future human settlement expansion. Reinmann et al. use EPA’s Integrated Climate and Land Use Scenarios model to project changes in Massachusetts through 2050.
Assessing the Global Warming Potential of Human Settlement Expansion Read More »
Reanalysis and reforecast data from NOAA’s premiere forecast system are now fully available for the public’s use.
Completion of Climate Forecast System Version 2 Archive Read More »
Tropical cyclones are one of the biggest natural threats to society, causing substantial economic damage and loss of life annually. Accurate and reliable seasonal predictions of tropical cyclone activity are essential for disaster preparedness, but remain challenging for climate scientists. In a new MAPP-supported study, Manganello et al.
indicates that the potential for high-resolution coupled (atmosphere-ocean) modeling to improve seasonal forecasting of tropical cyclone activity may be greater than previously believed.
Improving Seasonal Forecasts of Tropical Cyclone Activity Read More »
NOAA partners with Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, Department of Homeland Security, and the Centers for Disease Control to issue notification of emerging risk of Rift Valley Fever in East Africa due to El Niño-related rains.
El Niño and Rift Valley Fever Emerging Health Risk Notification Read More »
New research funded by the Climate Program Office’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program indicates that the potential for high-resolution coupled (atmosphere-ocean) modeling to improve seasonal forecasting of tropical cyclone activity may be greater than previously believed.
“There is little doubt that we will see a decline in Arctic sea ice cover in this century in response to anthropogenic warming, and yet internal climate variations and other external forcings could generate considerable spread in Arctic sea ice trends on decadal timescales,” begins a newly released article by Yeager et al., in Geophysical Research Letters.
Sea ice loss predicted to slow in the Atlantic, says new CVP-funded research Read More »
The Climate.gov team provided visual highlights to accompany the latest installment of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, released December, 15 2015.
Climate.gov team produces visual highlights for 2015 Arctic Report Card Read More »
The California Nevada Applications Program (CNAP), a NOAA RISA team, released a two-page outreach document on El Niño and what it might mean for the California-Nevada region. This document draws on both historical records and forecasts to outline multiple possible impacts of El Niño.
What does El Niño mean for California and Nevada? Read More »