in ENSO—more La Niñas or El Niños over the last 10 or so years—or other oscillations in our atmosphere. It's up to the forecasters to look at these maps and figure out which areas are showing trends w ...

rare for a tropical storm or hurricane to maintain its strength and tropical characteristics in this part of the world, due to cool ocean waters and currents as well as prevailing trade winds that blo ...

June 2023 set a record for the highest monthly sea surface temperature anomaly of any month in NOAA's 174-year record. June heat was not limited to the ocean surface; the Southern Hemisphere had its w ...

across the tropics at low levels, and west-to-east circulation at upper levels of the atmosphere). In normal years, the upward branch of this circulation is located in a large area around Indonesia. D ...

In 2021, the combined heating influence of all human-produced greenhouse gases was 49 percent higher than it was in 1990. ...

Conditions. The atmosphere's increasing abundance of carbon dioxide is increasing the acidity of ocean waters, and the ocean's net accumulation of heat energy is increasing water temperatures. Changes ...

and impacted millions of students across the nation through these courses. + Project Atmosphere - Project ATMOSPHERE is the comprehensive teacher professional development program based on studies in t ...

Climatology Network-Monthly (GHCN-M) data set and International Comprehensive Ocean- Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS). A combined global land and ocean temperature anomaly dataset was created from these re ...

on record. Across the state of Alaska, the average monthly precipitation was 2.01 inches, ranking in the middle third of the 99-year record. Conditions were wetter than average across much of the Nort ...

Lab (@OceansClimateCU), which aims to improve the understanding the tropical ocean and atmosphere, its interaction with ecosystems, and how it has changed in the past and will change in the future. In ...