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
Researchers use a new global paleoclimate data product to enhance our understanding of the ways temperature and precipitation have responded to each other over the past 2,000 years, in a new COM-supported Nature Geoscience paper.
A new study supported by AC4 compared both aircraft and ground-based FIREX-AQ measurements to find distinct aerosol processes with height, which cannot be fully characterized by observations from the ground.
Using FIREX-AQ Data to Learn More About Aerosols from Wildfires Read More »
A new CVP-supported study on tropical climate proposes that the Atlantic Niño phenomenon is made up of two parts, which have distinct impacts on climate and are changing differently over time.
A new study supported by a COM-CVP-GOMO partnership uses new ocean observing systems to uncover previously unknown phytoplankton blooms occurring beneath Southern Ocean sea ice cover.
New Discovery: Significant Phytoplankton Blooms Beneath Antarctic Sea Ice Read More »
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
Air Quality and Health Impacts from Prescribed Burns in the Eastern US Read More »
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.
How Does Data Assimilation Impact Subseasonal Tropical Pacific Forecasts? Read More »
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.
Finding Missing Sources of Abundant Atmospheric Pollutants Formic and Acetic Acid Read More »
Environmental ecologist Lucy Hutyra of Boston University received an $800,000 “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation to continue work funded by AC4.
AC4-Supported Researcher Awarded Prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Read More »