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
University of Washington researchers, funded in part by CPO’s Climate Observation and Monitoring (COM) program show that coral-only proxy reconstructions are more skillful with regards to tropical Pacific variability in the Nino 3.4 region (central, equatorial pacific) and show an unexpected climate responses to early 19th century volcanic eruptions.
New study supported in part by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate program finds plant damage (including crop damage) from ozone may be greatest in years with high plant production, not necessarily years with high ozone.
Plant Physiology Plays Major Role in Ozone Uptake Read More »
“Everyone here is smart. Distinguish yourself by being kind.” – Emily Bernhardt, ecologist and biogeochemist
Those are words to live by for Dr. Sylvia Dee, a climate scientist funded by the NOAA Climate Program Office’s Climate Observations and Monitoring Program and head of the Climate, Water, and Energy Lab at Rice University.
Profiles in Climate: Sylvia Dee Read More »
Supported in part by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate (AC4) Program, scientists from two University of Colorado institutes and NOAA participated in an intensive field campaign that used instrumented aircraft and vans to investigate the causes or sources of a methane hotspot in the U.S. Southwest.
U.S. Methane “Hotspot” is Snapshot of Local Pollution Read More »
The study, funded in part by CPO’s Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program, investigates the dynamic processes that influence submesoscale fronts in the Northwest Pacific subtropical counter-current (STCC) system.
Revealing the Dynamical Processes of Large-Scale Ocean Fronts Read More »
Research funded by two AC4 awards used observations from three long-term networks to update or “constrain” the chemical transport model mechanisms to more accurately represent the indirect formation and month-to-month variability of organic aerosol in the US southeast.
Long-Term Field Observations Lead to New Insights in the Formation of Organic Aerosols Read More »
This work, funded by CPO’s Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program as part of NOAA’s contributions to the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS) process studies, demonstrates how increasing the vertical resolution of ocean models can reduce commonly observed biases in the two regions.
Reducing Temperature Biases in Tropical Ocean Models Read More »
This study, supported by Climate Variability & Predictability, is the first to study how surfactants impact sea spray in regards to cylcones, the understanding of which could help improve model microphysics, leading to better forecasts that are more likely to capture rapid intensification of cyclones.
Relying on both classical statistical techniques as well as new machine learning approaches, this project funded in part by Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate presents a new model for predicting the mass of black carbon in the atmosphere that can be used with inputs commonly collected at most long-term monitoring sites.
Predicting the Mass Concentration of Black Carbon in the Atmosphere Read More »
Research supported by the Climate Variability & Predictability program suggests that a common proxy for understanding AMOC trends, sea surface temperature indices, are not the best choice at the centennial scale, opening the door for new indices to be developed.
Are Sea Surface Temperature Indices the Right Proxy for 100-year Trends in AMOC? Read More »