From hurricanes to seal pups: 4 ways drones are helping NOAA scientists conduct research From hurricanes to seal pups: 4 ways drones are helping NOAA scientists conduct research Read more
2019 ozone hole smallest on record 2019 ozone hole smallest on record Warmth in polar stratosphere limited depletion Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since 1982, NASA and NOAA scientists reported today. Read more
Mahoney named director of NOAA’s Global Systems Division Mahoney named director of NOAA’s Global Systems Division Read more
New temperature product improves global climate monitoring New temperature product improves global climate monitoring Record cold and record warm temperatures across the planet can cause major and widespread impacts to life and property. But how frequent are these extreme temperature events? How do the frequencies of record warm events and record cold events compare, and have their relative frequencies changed over time? Read more
Tiny Particles Brighten Clouds in the Tropics Tiny Particles Brighten Clouds in the Tropics Airborne mission finds a global belt of particle formation is making clouds brighter Findings from one of the first studies produced by the Atmospheric Tomorgraphy mission suggest climate models may underestimate the cooling effect of tropical clouds. Read more
Old weather “time machine” opens a treasure trove for researchers Old weather “time machine” opens a treasure trove for researchers One key to the past is crowd-sourcing data recovery https://cires.colorado.edu/A NOAA-funded research team ha published an update the 20th Century Reanalysis Project, a dauntingly complex, high-resolution, four-dimensional reconstruction of the global climate that estimates what the weather was for every day back to 1836. Read more
Indo-Pacific Ocean warming is changing global rainfall patterns 27Nov2019 Read more New research by NOAA and a visiting scientist from India shows that warming of the Indo-Pacific Ocean is altering rainfall patterns from the tropics to the United States, contributing to declines in rainfall on the United States west and east coasts. Read more
NOAA launches major field campaign to improve weather and climate prediction 7Jan2020 Read more Picture a calm, sunny day at a tropical beach. You look out at the ocean and in the distance a flotilla of small white clouds sails close to the waves. It’s ideal weather and typical of many days in the tropical Atlantic. However, scientists don’t fully understand how these ubiquitous clouds (a type of “shallow convective cloud”) form and impact the ocean, and it represents one of the largest uncertainties in predicting climate change. Read more
From hurricanes to seal pups: 4 ways drones are helping NOAA scientists conduct research 12Nov2019 Read more Read more
2019 ozone hole smallest on record 21Oct2019 Read more Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since 1982, NASA and NOAA scientists reported today. Read more