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Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
The official 1956 to 1960 hurricane season revisions—primarily from the master’s thesis research of Mr. Sandy Delgado—are now available in the HURDAT2 file on the Hurricane Research Division website.
Updates to authoritative Atlantic Hurricane database Read More »
A study funded by the CPO’s Climate Observation Division confirms previous research suggesting spring clouds may be influencing arctic sea ice concentrations in the fall.
The role of springtime Arctic clouds in determining autumn sea ice extent Read More »
The Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections and Climate Variability and Predictability programs will co-sponsor the Forecasting ENSO Impacts on Marine Ecosystems of the US West Coast workshop on August 10 and 11 in San Diego, California.
Upcoming workshop: Forecasting ENSO impacts on marine ecosystems of the US West Coast Read More »
The National Centers for Environmental Information released the latest update of the International Comprehensive Ocean–Atmosphere Data Set.
Updating the most complete archive of surface marine observations Read More »
The first results of The Last Millennium Climate Reanalysis, a research project partly funded by CPO’s Climate Monitoring Program, were recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
First results of the Last Millennium Climate Reanalysis Project Read More »
A study funded in part by the CPO’s CVP program used foraminifera preserved in radiocarbon-dated salt-marsh sediment to produce new sea level index points for a region between Georgia and Florida.
New insights into relative sea level in US Atlantic coast Read More »
CPO-funded research examined the role of wind data for prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation.
The value of wind data for linear Madden-Julian oscillation prediction Read More »
New research suggests the abrupt deep convection of the 2008 winter in the Labrador Sea is associated with unusual atmospheric conditions in the western North Atlantic and large-scale cooling in North America.
New insights into the role of atmospheric conditions in Labrador Sea deep convection Read More »
NOAA scientists installed NOAA’s Air-Sea Flux System on a new Australian research vessel to help expand a currently sparse database of Southern Ocean measurements.
Aboard new Australian ship, NOAA studies remote Southern Ocean Read More »
New research in Geophysical Research Letters and partially funded by CPO’s AC4 program found that the Bakken Formation, an oil and gas field in North Dakota and Montana, is responsible for roughly 2 percent of the globe’s ethane–about 250,000 tons per year.
Bakken Oil Field emitting roughly 2% of Earth’s ethane, says new report Read More »