The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on January 15, 2022, produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern scientific instruments, blasting an enormous amount of water and volcanic gases higher than any other eruption in the satellite era.
While the shade offered by clouds on a hot sunny day can be obvious, quantifying the actual climate impact in terms of solar energy remains a challenging task. This is because the volume, thickness, and lifetime of marine clouds can change rapidly, and the processes that govern how and where clouds form and how gases and aerosols in the air interact with cloud droplets are highly complex. In a marine environment, many of those gases and aerosols in the air come from the ocean itself.
NOAA researchers fly out over the Pacific to investigate cloud-forming marine sulfur Read More >
Major hurricanes, intense wildfires, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses, deep sea discoveries, and more made 2022 an eventful year for NOAA Research. As we enter the final days of the year, we’re taking a look back at some of our biggest accomplishments from the last 12 months.
NOAA Research’s top accomplishments from 2022 Read More >
A new NOAA study published today in the journal Science Advances about four decades of tropical cyclones reveals the surprising result that reducing particulate air
As research into engineering techniques that might one day be employed to artificially cool the planet advances, some scientists are calling for adoption of an
Scientists recommend a system of checkpoints to help guide climate engineering research Read More >
POPS is a low-cost, high-sensitivity alternative to traditional aerosol measurement technologies.
Small company thrives on commercialization of NOAA’s Miniaturized Particle Spectrometer Read More >
Findings of a new study of aerosols in the remote atmosphere finds that the northern stratosphere is significantlly more polluted than the south. Analysis of the aerosols suggests aviation is to blame.
Earth has two different stratospheres, and aviation may be to blame Read More >
The dynamics that lift smoke from large wildfires into the upper atmosphere could potentially be employed one day to help temporarily cool the planet, based on the findings of a modeling study led by NOAA scientists.
Study of wildfire plumes provide insights into methods that might cool the planet Read More >
Massive high-altitude clouds of smoke warmed the Southern Hemisphere's stratospshere by about 1 degree Celsius for six months, and likely contributed to the large and persistent ozone hole that formed over Antarctica during the austral spring.
Giant Australian bushfire injected 1 million tons of smoke in the atmosphere Read More >
