It’s been 50 years since the first attempt to forecast the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. So, what is ENSO and why is it so important to anticipate the timing of the cycle?
50 years of getting ENSO predictions *mostly* correct Read More >
The surface temperatures of about 40% of the global ocean are already high enough to meet the criteria for a marine heatwave — a period of persistent anomalously warm ocean temperatures — which can have significant impacts on marine life as well as coastal communities and economies. The new forecast by the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) projects that it will increase to 50% by September, and it could stay that way through the end of the year.
Global ocean roiled by marine heatwaves, with more on the way Read More >
Ice coverage has reached a record low in the Great Lakes for this time of year.
Low ice on the Great Lakes this winter Read More >
New research by scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory AOML shows that changes in temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, called El Niño-Southern
A new book published by the American Geophysical Union provides first detailed examination of how climate change may influence El Niño and La Niña.
How will climate change change El Niño and La Niña? Read More >
Available online 6 September 2019
The 2014‐16 Pacific Warm Anomaly‐El Niño sequence significantly changed ocean conditions in the California Current System (CCS), but impacts of these anomalies on nutrients, chlorophyll‐a, and pH, and comparisons to past El Niño events, have not been well described. We examined nine years (2010‐2018) of data from two ocean moorings that provide hourly measurements at fixed locations in the southern CCS, allowing us to determine both sub‐seasonal and multi‐year ecosystem changes.
