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
AC4-funded study evaluates the airborne fraction (AF) of atmospheric CO2, accounting for both human-caused and natural variations, to demonstrate the stability of global CO2 sinks over the past six decades.
Stability in Global Carbon Sinks Over the Past Six Decades Read More »
Using the “natural experiment” created by the significant reduction in emissions during mandated COVID-19 lockdown measures, researchers funded by AC4 and COM, two programs at the NOAA Climate Program Office, quantified human impacts on the urban atmosphere in Salt Lake City and evaluated the stationary and mobile monitoring systems in place.
Detecting Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Salt Lake City During the COVID-19 Lockdown Read More »
Expanded record of air-sea CO2 fluxes created using machine learning techniques improves our ability to model annual changes in the ocean carbon sink.
Improved and Expanded Global Ocean Carbon Product Using Machine Learning Read More »
These urban mitigation policies aimed at reducing CO2 emissions can worsen air quality and cause premature deaths if coemitted pollutants are not accounted for.
Climate mitigation policies for cities must consider air quality impacts Read More »
The ocean plays a significant role in absorbing CO2. This research will help us better understand the ocean’s role in climate and improve the detection of change in the ocean and atmosphere to advance NOAA’s mission.
Research funded by CPO’s Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) and published in the Journal of Climate found that increased carbon dioxide suppresses variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in GFDL ESM2M simulation.
Increased carbon dioxide suppresses AMOC variability in GFDL ESM2M simulation Read More »
COD-funded researchers attempt to answer the question “Has global warming slowed the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the Southern Ocean?” in a new study in Science.
The reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink Read More »
Work supported by CPO’s AC4 program found that the effects of melting permafrost in the Arctic could cost $43 trillion in extra economic damage by the end of the next century, on top of the more than the $300 trillion economic damage already predicted.
Emissions from thawing permafrost add trillions in economic impacts Read More »
In this COD-funded study published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers present a 13 year (2002–2015) semimonthly time series of the partial pressure of CO2 in surface water (pCO2surf) and other carbonate system parameters from the Drake Passage.
Recent evidence for a strengthening CO2 sink in the Southern Ocean Read More »
New CVP-funded research published in the Journal of Climate by Green and Schmittner simulates the consequences of a rapid collapse of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) under pre-industrial and anthropogenically-forced conditions.
The climatic consequences of a Pine Island Glacier collapse Read More »