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Researchers offer new insights into predicting future droughts in California

December 8, 2014

According to a new NOAA-sponsored study, natural oceanic and atmospheric patterns are the primary drivers behind California's ongoing drought. A high pressure ridge off the West Coast (typical of ... ...

The U. S. Climate Resilience Toolkit celebrates rollout

November 17, 2014

Using plain language and easy-to-use tools, the U. S. Climate Resilience Toolkit illustrates climate-related vulnerabilities that communities and businesses face, from national to local scales, and .. ...

New research shows ocean warming poses "immediate threat" to keystone reef-building coral in the Caribbean

November 6, 2014

New research published in The Proceeding of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences provides new insights on the threat ocean warming poses on coral growth in Mesoamerican barrier reefs. The ... ...

NOAA contributes key carbon dioxide data to global carbon assessment

October 6, 2014

The release of Global Carbon Budget 2014 coincided with the UN Climate Summit in New York on Sept. 23, 2014. The global report measures carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land ... ...

Modeling regional aerosol variability over California and its sensitivity to emissions and long-range transport during the 2010 CalNex and CARES campaigns

September 22, 2014

A new paper: "Modeling regional aerosol variability over California and its sensitivity to emissions and long-range transport during the 2010 CalNex and CARES campaigns," has been published in the ... ...

Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydroxyl parity

September 11, 2014

New research titled: "Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydorxyl parity," appeared in the Sept. 11 issue of Nature. The research, which is about the abundance of the hydroxyl radical on ... ...

Article highlighting Teaching Climate/CLEAN Collection makes front page of AGU's EOS publication

September 10, 2014

The article "Enabling Climate and Energy Literacy: A Shared Effort" about the CLEAN collection (featured on NOAA's Climate. gov Portal) made the front page of the September issue of the American ... ...

NOAA joins with Princeton and other institutions in six-year study to help public better understand Southern Ocean

September 10, 2014

The Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica lends a considerable hand in keeping Earth's temperature hospitable by soaking up half of the human-made carbon in the atmosphere and a majority of the ... ...

CarbonTracker-CH4: An assimilation system for estimating emissions of atmospheric methane

September 1, 2014

CarbonTracker methane, an off-shoot of NOAA's highly successful CarbonTracker, has earned peer-reviewed status with a recent paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics . The NOAA CarbonTracker-CH4 ... ...

Science integration into U. S. climate and ocean policy

August 11, 2014

CPO's Laura Petes is the lead author of "Science integration into U. S. climate and ocean policy," which appeared in the August issue of Nature Climate Change . The pace of environmental change lends ...

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