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Foundation
for NOAA in:

Climate

Oceans, Great Lakes and Coasts

Weather and Air Quality

Outstanding
Accomplishments in Research

NOAA Research Matters: Technological Innovations and Scientific Advances that Improve Our Lives
Learn about the preeminent contributions OAR scientists and our partners have made to building the knowledge base, tools, products, and services through which we can better understand and address the dynamics of our changing planet.

SEBN station (Midwest corn field) at Bondville, IL Monitoring Our Climate: The Value of Atmospheric Reference Observations
The Air Resources Laboratory participates in several national and international climate reference observing networks, providing leadership in establishing networks, designing, operating and maintaining observing sites, and analysis of the data.

How do we know that our climate has changed? How will we know how and why climate will have changed in the coming years, decades, and even centuries? These are two of the many climate-related questions scientists in NOAA have dedicated themselves to addressing. Such information is essential, as the United States and the world decide how to address climate change.

NOAA Brings Great Lakes to Google Ocean -- NOAA is helping Americans peer beneath the surfaces of the five Great Lakes by providing Google Earth with data that now includes detailed three-dimensional mapping of Lakes Huron, Ontario, Erie, Superior and Michigan.

Greenhouse Gases Continue to Climb Despite Economic Slump
Carbon Dioxide, Methane Increased in 2008 -- Two of the most important climate change gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA’s annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world.

National Tornado Experiment to Begin in May -- A collaborative nationwide project exploring the origins, structure and evolution of tornadoes will occur from May 10 through June 13 in the central United States. The project, Verification of Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment2 (VORTEX2 or V2), is the largest and most ambitious attempt to study tornadoes in history and will involve more than 50 scientists and 40 research vehicles, including 10 mobile radars.

Russian Academy of Sciences Vice President Visits OAR Headquarters; Discusses Joint Climate Research -- Dr. Richard Spinrad, assistant administrator, NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, and Dr. Nikolai Laverov, vice president, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), held an early spring meeting at NOAA’s Silver Spring headquarters to reaffirm research issues highlighted in the 2003 memorandum of understanding (MOU).

Data visualization: Arctic sea ice.

Ice-Free Arctic Summers Likely Sooner Than Expected -- Summers in the Arctic may be ice-free in as few as 30 years, not at the end of the century as previously expected. The updated forecast is the result of a new analysis of computer models coupled with the most recent summer ice measurements.

Maintaining an active constituent relations program ensures that OAR and NOAA leadership communicate effectively and often with their most important customers. The recent Commerce and Transportation Roundtable solicited input to ensure NOAA’s research priorities support the Nation's commerce and transportation activities by providing information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation.

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NOAA RESEARCH
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G is for GFDL – The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory conducts leading-edge research on many topics of great practical value, including weather and hurricane forecasts, El Niño prediction, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global warming. [more]

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Updated 4/23/2009

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