washing up in Bering Sea communities, and the underwater soundscape is getting louder. An essay in the 2022 Arctic Report Card reports direct evidence that ship traffic is increasing as sea ice dwindl ...

with NOAA's Office of Coastal Management to create a geospatial database of dikes and levees in Oregon's major estuaries. Using lidar, aerial photography, and various map products, they created a draf ...

107 years ago. Connection to El Niño/La Niña. Averaged over the span of weeks and months, the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean circulates in a giant vertical loop called the Walker Circulation. Air r ...

anticipated? Was it because we still have yet to see clear interactions between the ocean- atmosphere? (there are some weak hints as of early September). We don't really know. What we do know is that E ...

last, how many more coral reef areas it will impact, and whether certain reef areas that bleached in 2023, but are starting to recover, will be impacted again by bleaching-level heat stress this year. ...

also ranked warmest on record, and marks the 48th consecutive warmer-than-average summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Over the land surface, air temperatures for the season were much-above-average acro ...

December 2015, the Oceanic Niño Index was 2.25°C, tied with the same period in 1997. The atmosphere made a good showing in December, too. Until recently, the atmospheric part of this El Niño was laggi ...

from the A Stronger, More Resilient New York report—show New York City's electric assets located in the 100-year floodplain (dark blue bars), 500-year floodplain (light blue bars), and outside the flo ...

to follow along with what the polar vortex could bring us this winter season. ENSO transition. In March we said "goodbye" to La Niña and in June we officially said "hello" to El Niño. Since June we ha ...

changing climate recently, and in more detail. But it's worth mentioning again that, as the atmosphere gets warmer, it gets thirstier, and so it levies a bigger tax on soil and surface water. The fact ...