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Observing & Predicting
Department:May 29, 2018A saildrone observed the growth and decay of a bloom of ocean plants in the Alaskan Arctic in late summer 2017. Such blooms affect the rate of regional ocean acidification, which occurs as surface waters absorb human-produced carbon dioxide.
Department:May 24, 2018Want to forecast both weather and climate? First this means understanding the faster and slower moving features of our atmosphere, ocean, and land.
Department:May 24, 2018A rare tropical cyclone travels across the Gulf of Aden and makes landfall in northwestern Somalia during mid-May 2018.
Department:May 22, 2018Most of the United States has better than even odds of June temperatures being in the warmest third of the 1981-2010 climate record.
Department:May 17, 2018The U.S. climate record begins 125 years ago. Where do the data come from, and who had the foresight to begin collecting and preserving observations so many years ago?
Department:May 16, 2018With long ranges and adaptive capabilites, saildrones provide researchers with a new tool in their toolbox for collecting data in remote and hard to reach parts of the ocean.
Department:May 11, 2018This animated gif tracks the emergence and decay of La Niña in the tropical Pacific from August 2017-April 2018.
Department:April 30, 2018Average temperature maps can wash out days or weeks of hot and cold extremes that are important for things like energy planning and crop risk assessment. Jake Crouch explains how degree-day maps can bring back the details.
Department:April 30, 2018The chances that May-July temperatures will be well above normal are better than 50% across much of the southwestern United States and New England.
Department:April 20, 2018A dry winter set the stage for widespread and severe drought across the Southwest and Southern Plains.
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