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Department:October 6, 2016Sometimes, on a long journey, it’s good to revisit the basics. That’s the theme for this edition of Beyond the Data. We’re going old school, looking at some good old climatology adages and truisms, through the lens of a sturdy, reliable warhorse of a dataset.
Department:October 6, 2016For New Englanders, the saying “as American as apple pie” may as well be “as New England as lobster,”
Study finds fossil fuel methane emissions greater than previously estimated
Department:October 5, 2016Methane emissions from fossil fuel development around the world are up to 60 percent greater than estimated by previous studies, according to new research led by scientists from NOAA and...
Carbon dioxide levels race past troubling milestone
Department:October 3, 2016Carbon dioxide levels in the Earth’s atmosphere passed a troubling milestone for good this summer, locking in levels of the heat-trapping gas not seen for millions of years.
Every year...NOAA awards $44 million for climate research to improve community resilience
Department:October 3, 2016NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) has awarded $44.34 million for 73 new projects designed to help advance the understanding, modeling, and prediction of Earth’s climate system and to foster...
New tool helps urban communities build resilience to climate change
Department:September 30, 2016Our nation’s city planners, and business and community leaders have been grappling with weather- and climate-related impacts for decades. Now they have a set of tools to help them plan and...
Department:September 29, 2016Using the June floods in West Virginia as an example, the Climate Prediction Center's Tom Di Liberto explains how meterologists are like paleontologists turning the bones of an incomplete skeleton into a complete picture of a dinosaur.
Sea level in Indian Ocean shows abrupt rise, new study says
Department:September 28, 2016Source:A CPO-funded study was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research . The paper includes data showing sea level rise in the northern Indian Ocean rose twice as fast as the global...
New NOAA product improves early warning of drought
Department:September 23, 2016Source:Farmers, ranchers, and water resource managers will now have more time to prepare for potentially damaging drought conditions thanks to a new early warning product now available online ....
Department:September 22, 2016Because why go to the movies when you come to Climate.gov and watch the evolution of ENSO forecasts over the past two years?
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