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been engineered to withstand floods from unlikely but possible precipitation, but precipitation estimates are based on outdated work.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.
NOAA’s Climate Resilience Toolkit group recently worked with members of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to facilitate updates to federal agency Climate Adaptation Plans.
The National Integrated Heat Health Information System will soon publish two new documents to help local communities evaluate their successes in heat governance and identify challenges and areas for future improvement.
“This investment will support NOAA and its partners in better preparing Western communities for droughts in the coming years and decades.”
Eleven new projects aim to identify and better understand evolving climate risks, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity for islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The study evaluated the accuracy of four major reanalysis data sets in representing daily and extreme temperature across the United States, finding results least reliable in the mountainous western US, likely due to the complex terrain.