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
Coincident drought and flooding events can compound to be even more damaging than a drought or flood alone.
New research highlights important risk of rapid drought to wet period transitions Read More »
Researchers, funded in part by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate Program (AC4), have devised a breakthrough method for estimating national emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels using ambient air samples and a well-known isotope of carbon that scientists have relied on for decades to date archaeological sites.
Tracking fossil fuel emissions with carbon-14 Read More »
Researchers from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, funded by CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring Program, have greater confidence that warming surface temperatures and increasing tropical cyclone intensity appear to go hand-in-hand.
Link between Earth’s heat and hurricane strength grows Read More »
The partnership kicked off this week with the onboarding of a Office of National Marine Sanctuaries-CPO shared position: Climate Coordinator/Visiting Scientist, Dr. Zac Cannizzo.
Observations, in combination with models, are important for better understanding processes driving regional extreme heat events.
The role of sustained observations in regional extreme heat attribution Read More »
A research team funded in part by the Climate Program Office’s Climate Observations and Monitoring Program has published a new paper describing salinity’s significance in the rapid intensification of Atlantic tropical cyclones, and the possibility of improving our models for rapid intensification by including salinity.
Better understanding of this ozone sink is essential for improved modeling and prediction of air pollution, ecosystem health, and climate.
Changes in removal pathway has twice impact of key source on ozone pollution levels Read More »
The partnership has resulted in a number of high quality paleo datasets, without which significant advancements over the last 5 years in understanding societally-relevant risks such as drought and temperature changes in a long-term context would not have been possible.
In honor of Women’s History Month, NOAA is highlighting a few of its female scientists and funded researchers who are making significant strides in the climate sciences and other science fields. The following interview is with Dr. Lucy Hutyra, an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University and CPO Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Program-funded scientist.
Women’s History Month: A conversation with Dr. Lucy Hutyra Read More »
The principal investigator meeting was an opportunity to complement the atmospheric composition sessions at the JPSS/GOES-R Summit, and continue AC4 efforts to leverage existing meetings to hold principal investigator meetings.