Decades ago, the majority of the Arctic's winter ice pack was made up of thick, perennial ice. Today, very old ice is extremely rare. This animation tracks the relative amount of ice of different a...
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The entire Northern Hemisphere was warm during 2012. Drought affected agricultural regions in North America, Europe, eastern Russia, the Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. These warm conditions impacted grai...
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The animation above shows day-to-day changes in the historical probability of severe weather within 25 miles of a given location based on storm events from 1982-2011. “Severe weather” includes torn...
Parts of Northern Louisiana experienced a 1-in-500- to 1-in-1,000-year rain event in the second week of March 2016. Much of the moisture came from the tropics via an atmospheric river that some wea...
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**Latest version available @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jX9URzZWg** Time lapse of the age of sea ice in the Arctic from week to week since 1990, updated through the March 2016 winter maximum....
Basically everything that we think of as “modern human civilization”—permanent agriculture, continuously occupied cities, free WiFi—has emerged since the last ice age ended roughly 11,000 years ago...
Esperanza Stancioff (University of Maine) connects climate to fishermen's bottom line by helping construct a systems dynamics model. See for yourself what that means. --- Video produced by the Clim...
As a near-record El Niño begins to wind down, NOAA issued its spring seasonal outlooks on March 17th for flooding, drought, precipitation and temperature.
Atmospheric rivers drew large amounts of tropical moisture from the western Pacific all the way to California in the second half of January 2016. This animation shows satellite-based estimates of "...
**Latest version available @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jX9URzZWg** (*Updated through 2015's summer minimum in September). Time lapse of the relative age of Arctic sea ice from week to week s...
On October 15, 2015, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center released its outlook for precipitation and temperature for December through February and the drought outlook through January 31, 2016. The stro...
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Video produced by the Environmental Visualization Laboratory in cooperation with climate and Earth scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies and institu...
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The north-south shifting of rainfall across Africa with the seasons is one of Earth's great climate rhythms. Rain shifts north of the equator in Northern Hemisphere summer and south of the equator ...
Nolan Doesken turned a tragedy into an opportunity after the flood that devastated Fort Collins, Colorado in 1997. His community spirit blossomed into a national network of volunteers working to he...
The southwestern United States is on track to become warmer and drier. Laura Kaatz describes her collaboration with climate scientists as a way to anticipate water demand and infrastructure changes...
The Cache la Poudre River runs through Fort Collins, Colorado. This video explains how and why the city has implemented six strategies to mitigate the risk of annual flooding as well as extreme eve...
An abandoned golf course in Fort Collins, Colorado, presented a challenge to floodplain managers in the city government. The site had been artificially filled and elevated to reduce on-site floodin...
**Latest version available @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6jX9URzZWg** Decades ago, the majority of the Arctic's winter ice pack was made up of thick, perennial ice. Today, very old ice is extre...
This animation shows U.S. temperatures compared to the 20th century average, first for 2014 as a whole and then for each month of the year. More info @ http://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/2...
The Local Climate Analysis Tool brings climate analysis to your fingertips. Using interactive mapping and a series of menu-driven interfaces, this web-based tool helps climate experts and analysts ...
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Only a few months after closing the deal on his dream business- a restaurant in Panini Bay, New Jersey, Ivar Johnson's dream became a nightmare. His restaurant was nearly washed away. He held to hi...
For many Americans, adapting to new climate regimes means developing new expertise. Decision-makers across the nation are using data and tools to reduce their risks and protect their investments fr...
The Local Climate Analysis Tool brings climate analysis to your fingertips. Using interactive mapping and a series of menu-driven interfaces, this web-based tool helps climate experts and analysts ...
The Climate Prediction Center produces drought outlooks for one-month and three-month periods. This video reveals how these outlooks are made and verified after their publication.
The Climate Prediction Center's outlook for December through February gives California a 2-in-3 chance of receiving normal precipitation or better. Cool, wet conditions are favored in some southern...
This video demonstrates how warm water in the central Pacific can influence prevailing pressure and precipitation patterns across the ocean basin. These atmospheric disturbances influence the avera...
In the extended interview at left (3 minutes, 45 seconds), Florida State climate modeler Vasu Misra explains the challenges, risks, and rewards of including climate forecasts in the process of maki...
Alison Adams explains (61 seconds) how Misra's research into the ways a warming climate may affect afternoon thunderstorms can help Tampa Bay Water plan for the future.
Port Fourchon sits on the very edge of the country, all the better for vessels shuttling supplies to and from deepwater oil platforms across miles and miles of ocean. Keeping it open is a big deal ...
How do you measure sinking land and rising seas at the same time? Randy Osborne of Louisiana State University and Tim Osborn of NOAA's Office of Coastal Survey explain how a constellation of global...
Josh Kent of Louisiana State University gives a simple explanation of how sea level rise from climate change and sinking of the land both contribute to coastal changes.
When you visit the ocean, you walk over sand dunes to get to the beach. When you visit South Lafourche Parish and Grande Isle in Louisiana, you realize the ocean crosses dunes to work its way inlan...
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Up to 1,200 trucks a day travel in and out of Port Fourchon by way of the LA-1 highway, carrying supplies and materials for rigs and platforms in the Gulf. Keeping the highway above water is a chal...
Fundamental to any attempts to understand, slow, or reverse the build up of atmospheric carbon dioxide is a global accounting of where it's released and stored. That's why scientists at NOAA's Eart...
In mid-February 2014, an intense extratopical storm merged with an atmospheric river and hit the California coast. This three-part animation shows a satellite view of the storm clouds, then a color...