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 new research paper from NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society finds that dust storms – previously assumed to be rather rare and isolated to particular regions – are contributing to a larger number of U.S. traffic fatalities than are recorded. This research also proposes modifications to the current reporting classifications to more accurately capture dust storm impact.
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Craig N. McLean, assistant administrator of NOAA Research, who began his NOAA career as a uniformed officer in the NOAA Corps four decades ago and
Craig N. McLean, director of NOAA Research, to retire Read More >
From its inception as an experiment to improve forecasts for aviation, to its transition of its final update to NOAA National Weather Service operations, the Global Systems Laboratory’s pioneering High-Resolution Rapid Refresh weather model established a remarkable resume of research accomplishments.
The amazing research resume of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model Read More >
NOAA's HRRR-Smoke model may still be designated as experimental, but when wildfires are burning, many count on it for smoke forecasts.
When smoke is in the air, all eyes turn to this NOAA weather model Read More >
