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NOAA’s FY 2024 Budget:
Building a climate-ready nation

New budget request will support sustainable economic development while emphasizing equity.

About NOAA Research

NOAA Research enables better forecasts, earlier warnings for natural disasters, and a greater understanding of the Earth.

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)—or “NOAA Research”—provides the research foundation for understanding the complex systems that support our planet.

Working in partnership with other organizational units of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a bureau of the Department of Commerce, NOAA Research enables better forecasts, earlier warnings for natural disasters, and a greater understanding of the Earth.

Our role is to provide unbiased science to better manage the environment, nationally, and globally.

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Read about the latest advances in wind, weather and water forecasts in the new FY22 report. 

NOAA Releases FY 22 Science Report

A photo of a blue and white NOAA Twin Otter research aircraft inside an Islip, N.Y. hangar in 2023 as scientists install instruments needed for air quality research flights.
Air Quality

Summer airborne research targets Rocky Mountain ozone pollution

NOAA scientists and several partners are taking a fresh look at persistent air pollution problems bedeviling the nation’s two largest Intermountain metro regions, Denver and Salt Lake City, from the ground, in the air, and from space, during new research projects launched this month. 

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