capabilities improve, they could help inform choices about assessing and managing risk, and in guiding climate adaptation strategies. This report examines the current state of science of extreme weath ...

average. The ocean patterns then disrupt the large-scale weather patterns in the tropical atmosphere. These phases occur every two to seven years and can cause predictable disruptions to seasonal aver ...

has just passed, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask if the outlooks had some treats or tricks in store for the country. Here's the outlook from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC). On October 31, CPC re ...

throughout Montana to focus on ways climate change impacts the health of Montanans, both now and in the future. The assessment highlights the most likely climate impacts—heat, wildfires, drought, and ...

deficit features typical of El Niño situations and others differing from the expected pattern. In the central and eastern Pacific along the Intertropical Convergence Zone, there is still a narrow, str ...

simulations consist of regional climate models (RCMs) run at 50-km resolution and driven by atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) from Phase 5 of the Couple Model Intercomparison Projec ...

Story Credit : . Adapted from Pacific Islands Climate Storybook Climate Story " In the Dark of Monday Morning: Coastal flooding on Majuro in March 2014" by Victoria Bannon and Karl Felleniu ...

just one index? Well, ENSO is multifaceted, involving different aspects of the ocean and the atmosphere over the tropical Pacific. By analogy, consider the process of hiring someone into your organiza ...

percent chance) that upcoming monthly or seasonal average temperature or precipitation will fall in the top third, middle third, or bottom third of the climate record at a given place. Currently, the ...

Footnotes . (1) Dynamical prediction models use the physical equations of the ocean and atmosphere to forecast the climate. Statistical models, by contrast, do not use physical equations, but rath ...