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
A number of researchers, funded in part by the Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) Program, presented results that could help improve Earth-system prediction at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020.
Better understanding of how ozone, an air pollutant and greenhouse gas, is removed is essential for improved modeling and prediction of air pollution, ecosystem health, and climate.
New research provides unprecedented synthesis of how ozone is removed at Earth’s surface Read More »
As a program focused on value-add dataset development and analysis, the Climate Observations and Monitoring Program is keenly interested in furthering NOAA’s Big Data Project efforts through competitive research.
COM Program participates in Round Table to advance NOAA Big Data Project Read More »
Using a new powerful NOAA global climate model, NOAA and partner researchers show that big spikes in daily coastal sea levels will increase in the future from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic coast as warming progresses, but will be driven by differing forces in these two regions.
Jin Huang, CPO Earth System Science and Modeling Division Chief, attended and presented at the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Scientific Steering Group meeting to share CPO’s research efforts relevant to the U.S. GEWEX Program Office and thoughts on future U.S. GEWEX activities.
CPO helps guide Global Energy and Water Exchanges project’s future directions Read More »
Methane is the second most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas in the atmosphere after carbon dioxide, with U.S. oil and natural gas supply chain methane emissions, in particular, making up about 41% of anthropogenic emissions in the United States.
The catalogue provides consistent estimates of large-scale drought and flood events over 1950-2016, their different characteristics, as well as long term risk.
CPO-funded research develops first comprehensive Global Drought and Flood Catalogue Read More »
The new research in Nature Geoscience suggests that global budget estimates of ozone-depleting substances as well as other trace gases like methane could be improved by accounting for the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation’s influence.
Stratospheric variability influences emissions levels at Earth’s surface, study says Read More »
The townhall brought together about 70 participants, including NOAA and nonNOAA scientists, to highlight the important role CPO has played in advancing understanding and prediction of the climate system through competitive research.
AGU Townhall highlights CPO’s major successes over past two decades Read More »
Using historical data from tide gauges that line U.S. coasts, researchers funded by CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring Program created an extreme sea level indicator that identifies how much of a role different major weather and ocean forces have played in affecting extreme sea levels in coastal areas around the country.