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NYC could experience higher heat-related mortality under increased greenhouse gas concentrations, study finds
Department:July 7, 2016Source:A study partly funded by the CPO quantified long term trends in adaptation to temperature increases in New York City using historical patterns of temperature and mortality, as well as temperature...
NOAA announces $4.5M in funding for new observing technologies for ENSO research and predictions
Department:July 6, 2016Source:NOAA is investing $4.5 million over the next four years in four projects testing technology to enhance Tropical Pacific Ocean observing, which improves understanding of the El Niño-Southern ......
NOAA establishes new panel to guide sustained National Climate Assessment
Department:June 29, 2016NOAA today announced the appointment of 15 members to the new Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment . The committee will advise NOAA on sustained climate ...
Updating the most complete archive of surface marine observations
Department:June 27, 2016Source:The National Centers for Environmental Information released the latest update of the International Comprehensive Ocean–Atmosphere Data Set (release 3.0). This new data set, which was partially...
Improving estimates of Earth’s energy balance
Department:June 24, 2016Source:A letter recently published in Nature Climate Change details work partially funded by the CPO overviewing a strong agreement in measurements of Earth’s energy imbalance by Argo Profiling Floats...
As Alaska warms, methane emissions appear stable
Department:June 22, 2016Analysis of nearly three decades of air samples from Alaska’s North Slope shows little change in long-term methane emissions despite significant Arctic warming over that time period,...
First results of the Last Millennium Climate Reanalysis Project
Department:June 21, 2016Source:The first results of The Last Millennium Climate Reanalysis, a research project partly funded by CPO’s Climate Monitoring Program , were recently accepted for publication in the Journal of ......
New insights into relative sea level in US Atlantic coast
Department:June 20, 2016Source:In the Atlantic coast of North America, regional-scale relative sea level has changed mostly because of movements of Earth’s crusts and melting glaciers during the Holocene, a period of time...
The North Atlantic Oscillation as a driving force for observed rapid Arctic sea ice change, hemispheric warming, and Atlantic tropical cyclone variability
Department:June 20, 2016Thomas L. Delworth, Fanrong Zeng, Gabriel A. Vecchi,...
Q&A: What do Arctic ice and Atlantic hurricanes have in common?
Department:June 20, 2016The weather has been making a lot of headlines lately. According to NOAA scientists and our partners: the past twelve months have been the warmest on record for the globe; wintertime Arctic sea...