News & Research Highlights

In addition to higher ocean temperatures, corals face threats from stony coral tissue loss disease stresses. Using a crowdsourcing approach, scientists have characterized the global bacteria patterns associated with the disease.

The newly released report includes more than 60 stories about NOAA’s 2022 research and development accomplishments across NOAA’s mission. Accomplishments including improvements in air-quality, storm-surge, and wind forecasts.

For Fiscal Year 2024, NOAA has requested $6.8 billion in discretionary appropriations, an increase of $450.5 million from the FY 2023 enacted budget. The FY 2024 request includes an additional $80.2 million to implement Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.

The Global Meridional Overturning Circulation (GMOC), commonly known as the global ocean conveyor belt, has changed significantly in the Southern Ocean since the mid-1970s. A new study finds a broadening and strengthening of the upper overturning cell and a contraction and weakening of the lower cell.

Both century-long tide gauge data and more recent altimetry data reveal a rapid decadal acceleration of sea level rise over 2010-2022 along the US East and Gulf Coasts, a new study finds. The most notable rise occurred on the Southeast and Gulf Coasts.

The primary source of sulfur dioxide has historically been fossil fuel combustion and industrial activities, but wildfires are expected to occur more frequently and with longer durations due to land use changes and climate change. A new study examines how much sulfur dioxide is emitted by wildfires.

Methane emissions have shown unprecedented growth rates since 2020. These emissions can be thermogenic (from fossil fuel extraction and combustion) and biogenic (from plants and animals). A new study compares results from laser-based analyzers in identifying emission sources.

A new study incorporates observations from moorings installed along the Oregon coast in the 1990s and 2000s. The study incorporates the mooring measurements into a data set spanning more than two decades, and makes the data publicly available for the first time.

The newly released guide is the second in a series of guides to help community leaders use nature-based solutions (NBS) to minimize the risks of natural hazards.

A converted Cold War bomber packed with sensitive instruments is investigating atmospheric chemistry and aerosols over the Arctic. The mission is part of NOAA’s growing Earth’s Radiation Budget research program.