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 chapter walks readers through an overview of amplified warming in the Arctic, discussing a variety of processes in the climate system contributing to the warming.
Arctic change is generally discussed with average changes, but extreme events and changes to extremes are felt the most by humans and ecosystems.
COM-funded Arctic indicators shed light on changes in extreme events Read More »
This is the first North America-focused study to investigate how well and how consistently reanalysis datasets identify extreme temperature events.
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.
Atmospheric dynamics drive most interannual U.S. droughts over the last millennium Read More »
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.
Two new indicators help track climate change Read More »
Obtaining consistent results from data records that span multiple types of observing systems has been challenging, limiting our ability to use the observations and realize their full value.
El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-driven variations in sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific play a major role in seasonal rainfall changes in the United States and in driving weather and climate around the world. However, little is known about how ENSO will respond to anthropogenic changes in Earth’s climate.
The discrepancies between simulations and reconstructions obstructs our ability to gain a better understanding of climate from these natural experiments.
NOAA Research’s Climate Program Office (CPO) is pleased to announce that its Fiscal Year 2021 grant competitions are now open.
NOAA’s Climate Program Office Announces New Funding Opportunity Read More »
In a recent paper published in Science, authors analyze new paleoclimate data in the form of coral samples from the Tropical Pacific. These include a consistent proxy record for variables such as sea surface temperature.
No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium Read More »