An estimated 80 percent of Alaskans live in at-risk areas for wildfires, but those residents constitute a diverse public audience with varied information-seeking habits. New research examines how to reach that audience.
In the summer of 2021, wildfire haze from Arizona, California, and the Pacific Northwest shrouded the Denver region. Monsoon-driven summer thunderstorms that normally flush out stagnant air largely failed to materialize, allowing smog cooked under the summer sun in 90-degree heat to pool along the base of the foothills to the west.
Drought is one of the costliest and deadliest climate-related disasters in the United States. NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have led the development of the first comprehensive assessment of drought and health.
The Global Monitoring Laboratory’s quest for a reliable, cost-effective way to study Earth’s stratosphere passed a significant milestone on May 17, 2023: A remotely controlled glider, carried to an elevation of 90,000 feet by a weather balloon, returned to its launch location.
The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology hosted NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory on a research cruise to maintain moorings, part of the Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA).
A new modeling study shows that the emission inventories underestimate volatile organic compound emissions from wildfires when compared to aircraft observations by a factor of 3 to 7.
A new study finds that COVID-19 lockdowns dropped carbon dioxide emissions by rough 20 percent in Salt Lake City, Utah, between March 13 and April 30, 2020.
A new mapping tool may help bring government investment back into communities that have suffered from disinvestment, such as rural communities and communities of color.
On May 9, 2023, scientists aboard the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown arrived at their final destination in Reykjavik, Iceland following 55 days at sea, embarking from Brazil. The research team collected over 3,000 samples from the Atlantic’s surface to the seafloor, giving scientists a holistic snapshot of the Atlantic Ocean basin.
A new dataset provides river chemistry and discharge data for 140 U.S. rivers along the West, East, and Gulf of Mexico coasts, based on historical records from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This data will support regional ocean biogeochemical modeling and carbon chemistry studies.