Browse by Month
News
New tool helps urban communities build resilience to climate change
Department:September 30, 2016Our nation’s city planners, and business and community leaders have been grappling with weather- and climate-related impacts for decades. Now they have a set of tools to help them plan and...
Sea level in Indian Ocean shows abrupt rise, new study says
Department:September 28, 2016Source:A study funded by the CPO’s Climate Observation Division was recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The paper includes data showing sea level rise in the northern Indian Ocean...
New NOAA product improves early warning of drought
Department:September 23, 2016Source:Farmers, ranchers, and water resource managers will now have more time to prepare for potentially damaging drought conditions thanks to a new early warning product now available online ....
NOAA “reels in” data on Utah’s winter ozone problem
Department:September 19, 2016A deep sea fishing rod is probably not the first tool that comes to mind when thinking about how to study air pollution in a remote inland desert, but it’s the heart of a new NOAA system that has...
NOAA soliciting author nominations and technical inputs for Fourth National Climate Assessment
Department:September 14, 2016Source:Development of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is underway, and on behalf of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), NOAA is soliciting nominations for authors and...
Climate change increased chances of record rains in Louisiana by at least 40 percent
Department:September 7, 2016Human-caused climate warming increased the chances of the torrential rains that unleashed devastating floods in south Louisiana in mid August by at least 40 percent, according to a team of NOAA...
NOAA and Sea Grant fund $800,000 in research to understand effects of ocean changes on iconic Northeast marine life
Department:September 6, 2016NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program ( OAP ) and the ...
Exploring the role of movement in determining the global distribution of marine biomass using a coupled hydrodynamic – size-based ecosystem model
Department:September 5, 2016James R. Watson, Charles A. Stock, Jorge L. Sarmiento. Progress in Oceanography. DOI: 10....
New study on anthropogenic methane emissions in the US
Department:August 25, 2016Source:The National Academies recently began a new study, largely sponsored by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate (AC4) program , to improve tracking of human-caused methane...
NOAA-NASA study quantifies methane leakages in Four Corners area
Department:August 22, 2016Source:A study partly funded by the CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, and Climate (AC4) program was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The paper details...
Pages
