A new study finds that most phytoplankton productivity occurs before sea ice breaks up. The finding suggests that nutrients like iron are supplied by melting ice, feeding phytoplankton communities.
NOAA hurricane researchers successfully deployed a new uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) into Tropical Storm Tammy (2023) to measure parts of the storm too dangerous for humans to go.
Heat waves and cold spells aren’t always as dramatic as hurricanes and tornadoes, but they can be just as dangerous. New research might soon enable forecasting of these events months in advance.
Planned burns in grasslands, shrublands, and farmland affect air quality and health, but few studies have investigated how different crops contribute to pollution. A new study examines how much the crop type matters in the Eastern United States.
Between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, enhanced water mixing is causes colder sea surface temperatures. A new study finds sea surface temperatures are influenced on daily and seasonal timescales.
A new report detailing the accomplishments of the NOAA Sea Ice Modeling Collaboration Workshop, held in April 2023, is now available from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
A new study finds that data assimilation in Tropical Pacific models can improve predictions of sea surface temperature, but may not benefit predictions of mixed layer depth.
Besides meteoric “space dust,” the atmosphere more than seven miles above Earth’s surface is peppered with particles containing metals from satellites and spent rocket boosters vaporized by the intense heat of reentry.
NOAA teamed up with industry aircraft professionals to test the use of uncrewed aircraft to gather observations. Science payloads can help NOAA address air quality, the role of aerosols in Earth’s energy budget, and atmospheric interactions.
Amid rising temperatures in the Western and Eastern United States, a cooling trend has dominated summer daytime temperatures over the central United States since the mid-twentieth century. A new study examines the role of natural variability.