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 report has just been published detailing the accomplishments of the NOAA Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Workshop, held at the University of Colorado, Boulder in April 2023. The Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Team organized this workshop, a group dedicated to advancing cross-OAR and NOAA-wide sea ice modeling activities that is sponsored by CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) and Climate …
It is well known that within the Maritime Continent, a meteorological term for the region between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, enhanced water mixing processes from tides cause colder sea surface temperatures. An important question is exactly how much this process contributes to broader ocean and climate conditions. A new study, supported by the Climate …
Apart from wildfires, air quality and health challenges are also created by planned burns in grasslands, shrublands, and farmland. Few studies have investigated how different crops or plant types may contribute to air pollution when burned. The Climate Program Office’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Program supported a new study that looks into emissions of …
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A new CVP-funded study finds that data assimilation in tropical Pacific models can improve sea surface temperature, but may not benefit predictions of mixed layer depth, providing important context for the most accurate and efficient ways to produce forecasts in this region.
A new study supported by AC4 uses FIREX-AQ and WE-CAN field campaign observations to demonstrate pollution processes that were missing in atmospheric models.
Environmental ecologist Lucy Hutyra of Boston University received an $800,000 “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation to continue work funded by AC4.
A new study supported by CVP finds that tropical Atlantic climate trends are largely driven by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as well as aerosols from volcanic activity since 1950, rather than internal tropical systems.
New modeling study and visualization tool supported by a COM/MAPP/CSI partnership shows that marine heatwaves have complicated but predictable impacts on the habitats of sharks, seals, birds, and fish along the west coast.
Wildfire model shows that accounting for firefighting efforts is the most effective way to improve real-time fire forecasting, when AC4-funded researchers compare with observations collected during the FIREX-AQ field campaign.
COM-funded researchers produced a robust climate reconstruction from 800 through 2005 CE using paleoclimate data from across the globe and multiple models.