Rainfall declines may affect U.S. West Coast and parts of the East Coast New research by NOAA and a visiting scientist from India shows that […]
Indo-Pacific Ocean warming is changing global rainfall patterns Read More >
Airborne mission finds a global belt of particle formation is making clouds brighter When clouds loft tropical air masses high into the sky, some of
Tiny Particles Brighten Clouds in the Tropics Read More >
Unprecedented international expedition to explore the central Arctic gets underway The most ambitious research expedition ever to target the central Arctic got underway as the
A Year Locked in Ice Read More >
NOAA and partners have launched a new buoy in Fagatele Bay within NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the waters around a vibrant tropical coral reef ecosystem.
New NOAA, partner buoy in American Samoa opens window into a changing ocean Read More >
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
Argo Program Achieves Milestone with Two Million Ocean Measurements Read More >
NOAA’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Index, which tracks the warming influence of long-lived greenhouse gases, has increased by 41 percent from 1990 to 2017, up 1
NOAA’s greenhouse gas index up 41 percent since 1990 Read More >
NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in partnership with the Marine Research Institute in Iceland deployed the first high-latitude ocean acidification monitoring buoy in the Atlantic Ocean in early August. The moored buoy is the first of its kind to be deployed north of the Arctic circle in a region where very little is known about how carbon dioxide (CO2) is entering the ocean environment.
Independent astronomer records massive solar storm in 1859 Contact: Monica Allen, monica.allen@noaa.gov, 301-734-1123 Way back before we had the Internet and telephones and electrical wiring – more
The serendipitous discovery of solar flares Read More >
Pieter Tans, Ph.D., awarded the Roger Revelle Medal at the 2010 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco for his work in expanding our understanding of the global carbon cycle and raising awareness for climate change.
NOAA scientist awarded Revelle Medal at AGU Read More >
To better understand the effects of the ocean on global climate and weather, scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, or PMEL, deployed an Ocean Climate Station mooring – an anchored buoy – on the edge of the warm Agulhas Return Current (ARC) southeast of South Africa. Although there is an array of climate buoys positioned in the tropics, this is one of only two deep ocean climate buoys positioned below the Tropic of Capricorn; the other is located south of Australia. The buoy is part of NOAA’s climate observation and monitoring efforts.
New NOAA Buoy to Help Close Gap in Climate Understanding South of Africa Read More >
