in weather and climate forecasting, due to the fluid and chaotic nature of the ocean and the atmosphere. Let's take the example of the bar chart below, showing the latest forecast probabilities for th ...

of conditions. On September 10, 2023, sea ice in the Antarctic reached an annual maximum extent of 16.96 million square kilometers (6.55 million square miles), setting a record low maximum in the sate ...

cases between 4.5-4.75 inches and 5.25-5.5 inches. It's not physically plausible that the atmosphere would just never produce those rain amounts. It's more logical to assume that if we had enough data ...

A tutorial for the climate analysis and decision-making communities on current best practices in describing and analyzing uncertainty in climate-related problems. Uncertainty is ubiquitous. Of course, ...

drought, and also contributes to excessively high temperatures." Warm air aloft in the upper atmosphere also serves as a barricade to storms moving through the region. "When air at 10,000 or 15,000 fe ...

drifters in front of hurricanes to improve forecasts and investigate how the ocean and atmosphere interact within and around the storm. They also helped predict where currents in the Gulf of Mexico wo ...

a previous investment in basic science to understand the coupling between the ocean and the atmosphere led to significantly improved forecasts of hurricane tracks. Then one can point out the next hori ...

our most consistent sea surface temperature dataset, June's sea surface temperature anomaly in the Niño-3.4 region was -0.8 °C. This is the 7th-strongest negative June anomaly in our 1950-present reco ...

This fact sheet presents recent climate change investigations of the U. S. Geological Survey in New England using selected recent publications that highlight the broad spectrum of expertise and commit ...

Published : . May 2021. This review examines the peer-reviewed literature on community resilience interventions and metrics that may apply to the Northeastern region of the United Sta ...