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NOAA “reels in” data on Utah’s winter ozone problem
Department:September 19, 2016A deep sea fishing rod is probably not the first tool that comes to mind when thinking about how to study air pollution in a remote inland desert, but it’s the heart of a new NOAA system that has...
Ocean eddies and the atmosphere regulate western boundary currents, study says
Department:September 16, 2016Source:CPO-funded research analyzing the implications of ocean mesoscale eddies and the atmosphere for western boundary currents was published in Nature . Current climate models underestimate western...
NOAA soliciting author nominations and technical inputs for Fourth National Climate Assessment
Department:September 14, 2016Source:Development of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is underway, and on behalf of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), NOAA is soliciting nominations for authors and...
Climate change increased chances of record rains in Louisiana by at least 40 percent
Department:September 7, 2016Human-caused climate warming increased the chances of the torrential rains that unleashed devastating floods in south Louisiana in mid August by at least 40 percent, according to a team of NOAA...
NOAA and Sea Grant fund $800,000 in research to understand effects of ocean changes on iconic Northeast marine life
Department:September 6, 2016NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program ( OAP ) and the ...
Exploring the role of movement in determining the global distribution of marine biomass using a coupled hydrodynamic – size-based ecosystem model
Department:September 5, 2016James R. Watson, Charles A. Stock, Jorge L. Sarmiento. Progress in Oceanography. DOI: ...
Wind speed anomalies influence sea surface temperature anomalies in the tropical North Atlantic
Department:August 31, 2016Source:A CPO-funded study found that wind speed variability associated with the Atlantic Meridional Mode contributes to anomalies in sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Atlantic and the...
Wind speed influences sea surface temperature anomalies in the tropical North Atlantic
Department:August 31, 2016Source:A CPO-funded study found that wind speed variability associated with the Atlantic Meridional Mode contributes to anomalies in sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Atlantic and the...
New study on anthropogenic methane emissions in the US
Department:August 25, 2016Source:The National Academies recently began a new study, largely sponsored by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate (AC4) program , to improve tracking of human-caused methane...
NOAA-NASA study quantifies methane leakages in Four Corners area
Department:August 22, 2016Source:A study partly funded by the CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate (AC4) program was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The paper details...