program direction for NOAA's science and technology goals. "I'm the third female chief scientist in NOAA's history," Kapnick says, "but I surely hope and believe I will not be the last. I know there a ...

your overall grade point average rises even though you didn't improve in every class. Differences in exposure to sunlight, cloud cover, atmospheric circulation patterns, aerosol concentrations, atmosp ...

event observed in the contiguous United States in more than 30 years. The deadly summer heatwave in the Pacific Northwest left a bold signature on the June map. The final major temperature story was D ...

winter (December-February) with El Niño conditions, regardless of whether El Niño was officially in place in the summer. (See "additional details" for an explanation of why Brettschneider chose to loo ...

types of molecules released from fuels and formed during combustion react differently in the atmosphere. Some of these reactions lead to the formation of secondary air pollutants like ozone and partic ...

was developed by the International Economic Development Council with nationwide input and funded in part by grants from the U. S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration. UR ...

and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement jointly convened a 1-day public workshop in Washington, DC, to explore potential strategies for public health, environmental health, health care, an ...

the waves at the beach—waves that endlessly curl and crash on the shore. But the ocean and atmosphere also have what are called "planetary waves"—waves of immense scale. Kelvin waves are a kind of pla ...

the Mid-Atlantic into the southern Northeast. The odds favoring a well below average October in the Mid-Atlantic are influenced by the passage of the remnants of Hurricane Ian during the beginning of ...

methane data from ice core records, and compare the relative forcing power of methane and CO2. Using the methane data and current rate of change, students are asked to predict what is likely to happe ...