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NOAA research links human-caused CO2 emissions to dissolving sea snail shells off U.S. West Coast
Department:November 22, 2016For the first time, NOAA and partner scientists have connected the concentration of human-caused carbon dioxide in waters off the U.S. Pacific coast to the dissolving of shells of microscopic...
Study shows ocean acidification is two-front assault on coral reefs
Department:November 15, 2016This story was provided by NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. For the AOML story go online to AOML's website .
Scientists studying coral reefs in volcanically...New Columbia River streamflow reconstruction
Department:November 4, 2016Source:A study funded in part by CPO’s Sectoral Applications Research Program developed an improved reconstruction of the Columbia River streamflow using tree-ring records sensitive to climate forcings...
New issue of Northwest Climate magazine released
Department:October 26, 2016Source:The Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Research Consortium recently released the second issue of Northwest Climate , a magazine with stories about climate science and adaptation initiatives in the...
Mississippi River basin sensitive to decadal climate variability
Department:October 26, 2016Source:A study partially funded by CPO's Sectoral Applications Research Program and published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology found after simulation experiments that climate variability phenomena can...
Missouri River basin sensitive to decadal climate variability
Department:October 26, 2016Source:A study partially funded by CPO's Sectoral Applications Research Program and published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology found after simulation experiments that climate variability phenomena can...
Q&A: Is Arctic warming fueling severe winter weather in the mid-latitudes?
Department:October 26, 2016We caught up with James Overland, oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, to hear about his latest research on whether Arctic warming is fueling more severe winter weather in...
Antarctic ozone hole about average in 2016
Department:October 25, 2016The hole in the Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to about 8.9 million square miles in 2016 before starting to ...
Take a deeper look into the 2010-2015 Texas drought through this new interactive web app
Department:October 19, 2016Source:From 2010-2015, Texas experienced a wild hydrological rollercoaster, marked with both extreme drought and wet conditions. A new NOAA web application allows users to take a deeper look into this...
Workshop findings: sustainability challenges for northeastern urban coasts
Department:October 18, 2016Source:A report of the Sustainable Urban Coasts in the Urban Northeast workshop, hosted in October 2014 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, was published online by Local...