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The largest tornado outbreaks in the U.S. are producing more tornadoes, but scientists aren’t sure why
Department:January 6, 2017Source:NOAA Research-funded scientists have reported a sobering finding in Science regarding our Nation’s severe weather: the tornado outbreaks with the most tornadoes are spawning more tornadoes than...
NYC could experience a twenty-fold increase in seasonal coastal flooding episodes by the end of the 21st century
Department:January 5, 2017Source:For the first time, scientists have combined sea level rise projections with projections of changes in coastal storms to simulate future flooding and storm surge in New York City. A new NOAA...
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 ...
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