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
Dungeness crab larvae already showing effects of coastal acidification 23Jan2020 Read more Analysis of larval crab sampled from coastal waters identified examples of damage to the outer shell of numerous larval Dungeness crabs, as well as the loss of hair-like sensory structures crabs use to orient themselves to their surroundings. 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
Wave gliders, ocean drifters and drones to help international researchers solve key climate question 23Jan2020 Read more American and European scientists are deploying dozens of autonomous and remotely-piloted instrument platforms to capture simultaneous observations of the lower atmosphere and the upper ocean offshore of Barbados with unprecedented detail. Read more
Tiny shells reveal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean 16Dec2019 Read more In first-of-its-kind research, NOAA scientists and academic partners used 100 years of microscopic shells to show that the coastal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean average — with the seafood supply in the crosshairs. Read more