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
The autumn transition in the Arctic’s Beaufort-Chukchi seas is marked by a rapidly cooling ocean surface that leads to early sea ice formation.
Arctic Ocean’s autumn cool down accelerates sea ice formation Read More »
Scientists published a study in Nature Communications addressing this issue using the Community Earth System Model 2 Large Ensemble (CESM2-LE) to simulate sea surface temperatures (SST) under historical and future climate scenarios.
Climate variability in North Atlantic to increase dramatically by mid-century Read More »
A new COM-funded study highlights water resource challenges in the Western U.S.
CPO’s Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) program is announcing two new two-year projects in Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) that aim to improve the research on precipitation datasets. The competitively selected projects total four hundred seventy-nine thousand dollars in grants1. These precipitation projects, chosen in response to the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (DRSA) of 2022
CPO announced $1.2 million in FY23 funding for projects that aim to build new databases for precipitation information and analysis.
A new MAPP-funded study uncovers complex interactions between solar radiation and the topography of the Tibetan Plateau, demonstrating these relationships are crucial for accuracy in Earth System Models.
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 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
COM-funded ocean carbon storage study finds model uncertainty can be reduced by half when adjusting to agree with observations, highlighting the value of collaboration between the two scientific communities.
Ocean Carbon Storage Study Reduces Uncertainty in Future Projections by 50% Read More »
CPO staff, collaborators, and funded scientists engage in discussions on topics like climate impact on humans, indigenous peoples’ climate information needs, and the importance of the Southern Ocean in climate models, resulting in key research outcomes.
Critical Research Outcomes at 2023 US CLIVAR Summit with Strong CPO Showing Read More »