Why is the North Pacific warming so fast?
New research describes one of the processes driving the North Pacific’s trajectory into uncharted waters.
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Climate Change
Understanding the basics of carbon dioxide
As atmospheric greenhouse gas levels continue to rise, it is important to understand the basics of what these gases are, how NOAA monitors them, and what they mean for our global climate. Continue reading to learn all about carbon dioxide and why it keeps making headlines.
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National Academies unveils strategy to modernize probable maximum precipitation estimates
As climate change continues to supercharge storms that threaten existing infrastructure, there’s an urgent need to modernize estimates of probable maximum precipitation and improve the science behind them.
A class of ozone-depleting chemicals is declining, thanks to the Montreal Protocol
New research by a team including current and former NOAA-affiliated scientists has shown that atmospheric concentrations of a class of ozone-depleting chemicals used as refrigerants,
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Nitrous oxide emissions grew 40 percent from 1980 to 2020, accelerating climate change
Concentrations of N2O, a potent greenhouse gas, are higher than all major model projections
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During a year of extremes, carbon dioxide levels surge faster than ever
Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanographyoffsite link at the University of California San Diego announced today.
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Cascade of extreme events transforming Bering Sea, challenging communities
Unprecedentedly low sea ice cover in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas during back-to-back winters from 2018 to 2019 caused a cascade of impacts that
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The world’s benchmark climate monitoring station passes a major milestone
May 17 2024 marks 50 years of NOAA’s continuous measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Global Monitoring Laboratory’s Mauna Loa Observatory.
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5 science wins from the 2023 NOAA Science Report
‘Zooming’ into hurricanes, a new underwater vehicle and a fish mystery solved.
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