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Atmospheric rivers deliver water vapor and can bring heavy precipitation when making landfall. A new study has found that a high-resolution climate model can demonstrate accurate details of relationships between atmospheric rivers and major Northern Hemisphere climate modes.

David Herring, Chief of the Communication, Education, and Engagement Division of the Climate Program Office, has been named a finalist for a Pinnacle Award. He has been nominated for for Climate Change Executive of the Year.

The month tied for fifth-warmest September on average for the globe. North America was record warm, while La Niña continued to chill the tropical Pacific.

Call it what you like—triple-dip, three-peat, three-bean salad—we are facing the third La Niña winter in a row.

Fifth-warmest September on record; heatwave brought record temperatures to the West.

Fossil fuels are the only source of carbon dioxide large enough to raise atmospheric carbon dioxide amounts so high so quickly. 

Differences in exposure to sunlight, cloud cover, atmospheric circulation patterns, and other factors influence whether and how much a location is warming or cooling.

While we cannot stop global warming overnight, or even over the next several decades, we can slow the rate and limit the amount of global warming by reducing human emissions of heat-trapping gases and soot. 

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that Earth is warming and a preponderance of scientific evidence that human activities are the main cause.

A new study from scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute of Marine & Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) investigates Hurricane Dorian’s track forecast uncertainties.