Argo Program Achieves Milestone with Two Million Ocean Measurements Argo Program Achieves Milestone with Two Million Ocean Measurements An Argo float recently surfaced in the Atlantic Ocean to transmit temperature and salinity measurements from over a mile deep. This float was made in France and launched by German scientists in 2016, and it is one of thousands in the international Argo Program, which just recorded its two millionth profile, marking a major milestone for the 20-year old observation program. Read more
Ozone hole modest despite conditions ripe for depletion Ozone hole modest despite conditions ripe for depletion Global efforts to reduce atmospheric chlorine are paying off Weather conditions were ripe for a big ozone hole this year. But declining levels of ozone-depleting chemicals kept it to near-average size. Read more
2018 NOAA General Modeling Meeting and Fair Brings Together Modeling Community 2018 NOAA General Modeling Meeting and Fair Brings Together Modeling Community Nearly 200 scientists and managers from government, academia, and private industry gathered Sept. 10-12 at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland from September 10-12, 2018. This inaugural event brought the NOAA modeling community together to share ideas on how to advance modeling and network with other professionals. Read more
NOAA organizes first agency-wide event to advance its modeling enterprise NOAA organizes first agency-wide event to advance its modeling enterprise NOAA constantly strives to improve its models of our changing environment in order to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers, and other decision makers with reliable information they can act on. But improving models takes time, money, and labor—tight budget constraints make this a challenging feat. Read more
High temperatures bring citizen scientists to map the hottest places in D.C. and Baltimore High temperatures bring citizen scientists to map the hottest places in D.C. and Baltimore With the Mid-Atlantic region expecting a stretch of days with above-normal summer temperatures, NOAA and its partners will lead a group of citizen scientist volunteers on a mission this week to collect data that will be used to map the hottest places in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Read more
Looking for life in Arctic mud Looking for life in Arctic mud Editor's note: This is the seventh in a series Dispatches from the Arctic on the August science cruise by NOAA and partner scientists aboard the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy. Today's post is from Janet Hsiao, NOAA John Knauss Sea Grant fellow, and Meredith LaValley of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee. Read more
Hurricane hunter lands at NOAA's Boulder labs 17Oct2018 Read more The former Chief of Operations at the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, pilot and NOAA Corps CAPT Catherine A. Martin is now the Executive Director of NOAA Boulder Laboratories. Read more
Drifting buoys track Hurricane Michael in the Gulf of Mexico 12Oct2018 Read more On Monday night, October 8, 2018, 10 drifting buoys were thrown from the hatch of a U.S. Air Force Hurricane Hunter into the Gulf of Mexico so they could be in front of Hurricane Michael to help with hurricane forecasting. Read more
NOAA funding research effort to develop global aerosol map 19Sep2018 Read more The University of Colorado has been awarded funding for development of an improved global map of smoke, dust and other aerosol particles. Read more
Ozone hole modest despite conditions ripe for depletion 2Nov2018 Read more Weather conditions were ripe for a big ozone hole this year. But declining levels of ozone-depleting chemicals kept it to near-average size. Read more
Small unmanned aircraft flies into rapidly intensifying Hurricane Michael 15Oct2018 Read more NOAA scientists flew multiple missions into Hurricane Michael in the days before landfall, closely observing the rapid intensification of the storm. Their tools included a small unmanned aircraft, called the Coyote, which flew into the strongest winds of the eyewall as the storm intensified to a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Read more