governments can develop climate-resilience financial systems that help local communities invest in protecting residents, businesses, public infrastructure, private property, and natural resources from ...

radiation. Great visualization of 8 different greenhouse gas IR spectra (H2O, C3F8, O3, CFCl3, CO2, CH4, CF2Cl2, N2O) showing their relative intensity v. wavelength. Well-designed animation that allo ...

months of straddling the fence, the atmosphere and ocean over the tropical Pacific have finally leaned far enough toward El Niño that forecasters have declared an El Niño advisory. In this week's ENSO ...

more water vapor to the air. When water vapor condenses into rain, it releases heat into the atmosphere, which energizes storms. A second influence on the 2011 seasonal outlook is ongoing wind and air ...

months or longer. (3) A reanalysis means that all of the available data, both from ocean and atmosphere, are collected and assimilated into a dynamical numerical model so that they lead to a set of es ...

to adapt to the impacts of climate change in new and creative ways. The Resilience and Adaptation in New England (RAINE) database catalogs vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation plans, reports, and ...

the August outlooks. Observed soil moisture was again considered for these outlooks, as extremes in soil moisture (both wet and dry) can influence temperatures and precipitation during the summer. Fin ...

forecaster wrote via email. He explained that the geographical location where Beryl intensified- in the tropical Atlantic, just east of the Windward Islands-was extraordinary as there are characteristi ...

aggregated response to all sorts of atmospheric and oceanic processes. For the most part, the atmosphere is what changes the temperature pattern across the North Pacific Ocean, not the other way aroun ...

climate change issues. From a career and college readiness perspective, the scientist featured in this video is a female scientist and could be seen as a role model to underserved populations. Youtube ...