A new study finds that how much of Earth’s surface energy is used to evaporate water is a crucial driver of local weather variations during summer months. The researchers identify two feedback regimes related to evaporation and cloudiness.
A commercial vessel deployed five autonomous profiling Argo floats Institution in early August during a southbound transit from Louisiana to Jamaica. The floats will add to the global Argo array and enhance key ocean measurements in a region critical for accurate hurricane forecasting.
Recent decades have shown enhanced low sea level pressure from North Carolina to Massachusetts, associated with a relative sea level rise. This pattern combines with wind stress in the summertime and the effect grows larger over time.
A new study finds that changes in heat transport by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is influencing the frequency of floods along the United States southeastern coast.
A new study accounting for the simultaneous effects of fires, water stress, and plant competition suggests that up to 40 percent of Amazon forests may begin to convert to savanna before mid-century under high greenhouse gas emission scenarios.
Scientists at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — a division of the National Weather Service — have increased their prediction for the ongoing 2023 Atlantic hurricane season from a near-normal level of activity to an above-normal level of activity.
A new study captures a snapshot of two decades of global interior ocean measurements, and the study demonstrates that the ocean’s role as a carbon sink and its ability to store anthropogenic carbon may be weakening.
A new article explains how to use climate data and projections to plan for climate change. The publication applies to any location, with examples specific to Nevada.
Cape Town, South Africa, was one of the world’s first major cities to nearly run out of water, in 2018. A new study examines how changes in the Agulhas Current may affect future South African rainfall.
Scientists from NOAA, NASA and 21 universities from three countries are deploying state-of-the-art instruments in multiple, coordinated research campaigns to investigate how air pollution sources have shifted over recent decades.