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Scorching heat bakes the Southwest in mid-June 2016

Tom Di Liberto | June 22, 2016

Scorching heat in the U.S. Southwest in mid-June 2016 broke daily records for this time of year. In many locations, temperatures ranked in the top five warmest days for any time of year.

First results of the Last Millennium Climate Reanalysis Project

June 21, 2016

The first results of The Last Millennium Climate Reanalysis, a research project partly funded by CPO's Climate Monitoring Program , were recently accepted for publication in the Journal of ... ...

Atmospheric 'Groundhog Day' behind flooding in France and Germany

Tom Di Liberto, Rebecca Lindsey | June 21, 2016

A non-stop parade of thunderstorms pounded parts of Europe during the end of May and beginning of June.

New insights into relative sea level in US Atlantic coast

June 20, 2016

In the Atlantic coast of North America, regional-scale relative sea level has changed mostly because of movements of Earth's crusts and melting glaciers during the Holocene, a period of time ... ...

Scientists have created new methods to detect climate prediction failures

June 20, 2016

New CPO-funded research, recently published in Nature Climate Change, presents new methods for evaluating the performance of climate model predictions. The statistical methods provide a way to ... ...

Like day and night: How summer afternoons 'listen' to spring rains, and nights don't

Deke Arndt | June 16, 2016

For much of the country, summer temperatures are somewhat sensitive to late-spring precipitation. It turns out that summer afternoons are way, way more sensitive than summer nights.

Which emits more carbon dioxide: volcanoes or human activities?

Michon Scott, Rebecca Lindsey | June 15, 2016

Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year.

¿Qué emite más dióxido de carbono? ¿Los volcanes o la actividad humana?

Michon Scott, Rebecca Lindsey | June 15, 2016

Las actividades humanas emiten 60 veces o más la cantidad de dióxido de carbono liberado por los volcanes cada año.

Historically speaking, where are the summer "hot spots" for severe weather in the U. S.?

June 13, 2016

For some parts of the U.S., the historical probability of severe weather peaks in late spring. But where are the summer “hot spots” for severe weather?

New insights into the role of atmospheric conditions in Labrador Sea deep convection

June 10, 2016

A study partially supported by CPO's Climate Variability and Predictability Program concluded that the abrupt deep convection of the 2008 winter in the Labrador Sea is associated with unusual ... ...

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