Two experimental tools that will speed fire detection and warning got a week-long test run last month during a series of hands-on simulations in NOAA’s new Fire Weather Testbed.
NOAA tests next-generation wildfire detection and warning tools Read More >
This groundbreaking study could lead to vast improvements in fire weather forecasting.
First-of-its-kind experiment illuminates wildfires in unprecedented detail Read More >
Analyzing the forecast, decision support and new tools for the future The wind-driven Marshall Fire erupted into the most costly wildfire in Colorado history on
Looking back at Colorado’s Marshall Fire Read More >
Discovering a 207-year-old whaling ship, advancing air-quality forecasts, improving storm surge and wind forecasts, and deploying the first-ever drone-based tagging of endangered whales. These are a few of the more than 60 stories about NOAA’s many notable scientific accomplishments from the past year that are featured in the 2022 NOAA Science Report, which emphasizes a wide range of impacts that NOAA science advancements have on the lives of Americans.
As the catastrophic Colorado wildfires of late 2020 burned out of control, a small company based in Fort Collins, Colorado, decided to use the event
A NOAA-funded startup innovates for social good Read More >
Large wildfires and severe heat events are happening more often at the same time, worsening air pollution across the western United States, according to a
Air pollution from wildfires, rising heat affected two-thirds of U.S. West Read More >
NOAA’s 15th Arctic Report Card catalogs for 2020 the numerous ways that climate change continues to disrupt the polar region, with second-highest air temperatures and second-lowest summer sea ice driving a cascade of impacts.
Sea ice loss and extreme wildfires mark another year of Arctic change Read More >
