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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 ... ...

Record-breaking rain in Arizona

Michon Scott | September 10, 2014

Flash floods scoured Phoenix and surrounding areas on September 8, 2014. How did the rainfall totals compare to normal September precipitation?

Spring climate plays major role in Lake Erie algae blooms

Rebecca Lindsey | September 8, 2014

It's the time of year for potentially toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie. But the stage for most blooms is set in spring.

Western drought brings Lake Mead to lowest level since it was built

Caitlyn Kennedy | September 4, 2014

On July 11, Lake Mead reached its lowest water level since construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s. Many scientists are concerned that the prolonged drought could be a sign that the region will face significant water supply challenges due to climate change.

Details on the September ENSO diagnostic discussion—late, or never?

Emily Becker | September 4, 2014

Forecasters are still calling for a 65% chance of El Nino conditions being met in the next few months. Isn't this late for the start of an ENSO event?

Data Snapshots: Drought Outlook for September 2014

LuAnn Dahlman | September 3, 2014

Drought in the far West and the southern portion of the Great Plains—regions that are already experiencing extreme and exceptional drought—will likely continue or worsen through September.

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 ... ...

2014 temperature extremes: U. S. runs hot and cold

Rebecca Lindsey | August 29, 2014

Never in the historical record have such large areas of the country experienced such radically different temperature extremes as they have so far in 2014.

Groundwater: California's big unknown

Caitlyn Kennedy | August 27, 2014

Since we last covered the California drought, conditions in the state have stayed, well, dry—very dry. Statewide, total precipitation is about equal to or below the lowest three-year period since 1895.

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