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- Department:December 10, 2020
La Niña's here through winter, but chances for ENSO to transition to neutral by spring are rising.
- Department:December 3, 2020
The large, warm pool of ocean water in the Indian and west Pacific Oceans has been growing warmer and expanding in size since 1900, impacting the Madden Julian Oscillation and regional rainfall.
- Department:October 30, 2020
A strong polar vortex supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole in September 2020 that should persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported today.
- Department:October 23, 2020
Breadjerknes feedback.... wait, I'm sorry, I mean *Bjerknes* feedback, and how it helps El Niño and La Niña events to grow.
- Department:September 24, 2020
Guest blogger Marybeth Arcodia explains her latest research into how the Madden-Julian Oscillation and ENSO sometimes enhance each other's influence on U.S. precipitation and other times cancel each other out.
- Department:August 26, 2020
Hundreds of wildfires burned through over one million acres of land in California in less than two weeks in August. The resulting smoke has not only worsened air quality across the state but spread across the country.
- Department:June 24, 2020
Not a Mad Lib! Our blogger lays out some of the evidence for and against the notion that volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño.
- Department:April 15, 2020
The most comprehensive database ever assembled of paleoclimate proxies that tell scientists about temperatures since the last ice age ended around 12,000 years ago has been released to the public.
- Department:April 8, 2020
In 2015, NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO) invited grant proposals from sea ice and climate scientists looking to better understand and predict Arctic sea ice behavior, on timescales ranging from days to decades. This is our second story on some of the resulting research.
- Department:June 30, 2020
Transcript available! On Wednesday, February 5, climate expert Dr. Gijs de Boer answered questions in a Climate.gov tweet chat about the ATOMIC cloud-science mission in Barbados. Read the transcript.