Urban Heat Case Study Demonstrates Impacts of Vegetation in Bengaluru, India
The study focuses on investigating the controlling factors of urban heat in Bengaluru, India and showcases multiple methods of urban heat analysis.
Climate Monitoring
Coastal Researchers Develop Models to Predict Extreme Sea Level Changes
Predicting periods of relatively higher flood risk would allow officials to prepare and deploy resources more in advance.
Study Develops Framework to Improve Tropical Cyclone Modeling and Projections
Their framework has useful applications for analyzing tropical cyclone forecasts and could help improve understanding of where and how often tropical cyclones may occur in the future under a changing climate.
New High-Resolution Dataset of Upper Ocean Stratification Could Help Improve Tropical Cyclone Intensity Predictions
Tropical cyclone formation and intensity is influenced by the amount of heat stored in the upper ocean, which depends on factors such as wind speed and stratification, or how much the warm upper layer of the ocean mixes with the cooler layer underneath.
MERT Hosts Successful Virtual Focus Group Identifying West Coast National Marine Sanctuaries Climate Science Needs
Participants identified rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, deoxygenation, harmful algal blooms, extreme events, and the ability to predict and project these changes at scales meaningful to sanctuaries as the most pressing needs.
COM-Funded Team Develops Prototype Server to Host NOAA Buoy Measurements
This protype milestone is an important step toward increasing the use and accessibility of NOAA’s ocean data collected at the Pacific Marine Environmental Lab and other U.S. institutions.
COM-funded Arctic indicators shed light on changes in extreme events
Arctic change is generally discussed with average changes, but extreme events and changes to extremes are felt the most by humans and ecosystems.
Hot and Cold: New study compares how well atmospheric reanalysis products identify extreme temperature events across North America
This is the first North America-focused study to investigate how well and how consistently reanalysis datasets identify extreme temperature events.
Atmospheric dynamics drive most interannual U.S. droughts over the last millennium
Analysis of the last millennium reanalysis climate reconstruction shows a clear connection between Southwest drought and La Niña sea-surface temperature patterns. However, this pattern only explains a small part of the variability associated with past U.S. droughts.
Two new indicators help track climate change
Researchers highlight the significance of examining trends in large-scale weather patterns using these new indicators since they reflect near surface conditions, are key drivers of extra-tropical weather, and are important regulators of human comfort for approximately half of the world’s population.