ClimateWatch

In response to a record-breaking Pacific hurricane season, Hawai’i Sea Grant led a NOAA Coastal Storms Program project to assess the risk of urban Honolulu to coastal inundation.

Georgia Sea Grant, in partnership with organizations along the east coast, is piloting a sea level rise smartphone app to monitor local flooding and contribute to a database that will help cities

A new study funded by CPO’s Climate Observation Division was recently published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society .

A new CVP-supported study by Chen et al. titled “Intraseasonal Variability of Upwelling in the Equatorial Eastern Indian Ocean” has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans .

Just how powerful is the current El Niño? There’s more to the story than the very warm equatorial Pacific.

by Anupa Asokan (NOAA Research Communications)

Members of the Carolinas Integrated Sciences & Assessments (CISA), a NOAA RISA team, compiled an integrated assessment of the conditions which contributed to the October 2015 extreme rainfall

Sea level rise can exacerbate flooding, shoreline erosion, and storm hazards, making coastal communities more vulnerable.

Predictions at the seasonal to sub-seasonal scale are important for planning and decision-making in a variety of disciplines, and improving understanding and model skill at this timescale is a key

Few places on Earth are more strongly affected by El Niño than the Galápagos Islands, which straddle the equator in the eastern tropical Pacific. Guest blogger Kris Karnauskas explains why these unique islands are so biologically productive—and what happens to that productivity during El Niño.