New research indicates the rapid increase in the rate of sea level rise along the U.S. Southeast Coast since 2010 is due partly to natural variability factors, and that the rate of sea level rate might slow in the next five years.
NOAA will investigate persistent air pollution problems bedeviling the nation’s two largest Mountain West metro regions, Denver and Salt Lake City, in new research projects in July 2024.
The World Meteorological Organization has declared 2023’s Tropical Cyclone Freddy to be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record, at 36 days. Freddy covered a distance nearly a third of Earth’s circumference.
GFDL’s Modular Ocean Model, MOM6, represents a major advancement in modeling oceanic and climatic processes. MOM’s development began in the mid-1980s, aimed at providing a robust tool for simulating ocean circulation and its effects on global climate.
A new study suggests a series of Gulf of Mexico reefs are more resilient to warmer oceans as they are exposed to a wider range of temperatures brought on by a physical movement of seawater called “eddies.”
High-hazard structures such as dams and nuclear power plants have been engineered to withstand floods from unlikely but possible precipitation, but precipitation estimates are based on outdated work.
New research suggests that about one-third of the world’s land could see more frequent multi-year droughts under a low-emission scenario, and 62 percent could face more frequent and severe droughts under the highest-emission scenario.
GOES-U is the latest addition to NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system, enhancing weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and climate research.
To understand how structural fires at the wildland urban interface contribute to air pollution, recent tests measured gas and particle emissions from burning structural materials under realistic fire conditions.