013-1872-z. Carvalho, L. M. V., C. Jones, and B. Liebmann, 2002: Extreme precipitation events in southeastern South America and large-scale convective patterns in the South Atlantic convergence zone. ...

a record 1.49°F (0.83°C) above the twentieth-century average, beating the previous record set in April 2016. In particular, April surface temperatures across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico were the ...

A. Good, C. M. Domingues, S. Wijffels, and N. Bindoff, 2013: [Global Oceans] Ocean Heat Content [ in "State of the Climate in 2012"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), S50-S53. Re ...

snow surrounding the clean area has melted faster, leaving an elevated patch of white snow (seen in the photos above). Dusty snow causes earlier melting, particularly in the spring and summer. Plants ...

that were warm, but not extremely so. Only the simulations that mirrored human-caused changes in greenhouse gases and the resulting sea ice loss were able to generate a realistic picture of the extrem ...

next to each other, the southern Beaufort Sea and the Chukchi Sea show markedly different trends in polar bear survival. Studies from the Beaufort Sea indicate population declines. The Chukchi Sea pop ...

more energetic than normal in 2013, reaching farther north than they normally do. Farther east in the Pacific Ocean, the pattern of lower-than-average sea surface heights that extends westward across ...

on March 21, 2014, and the annual melt season is underway. This winter's maximum sea ice extent in the Arctic was 14.91 million square kilometers (5.76 million square miles), making it the fifth small ...

and preserving observations so many years ago? The earliest known systematic weather observations in America were taken by John Campanius Holm along the Delaware River in the 1640s. Some of our earlie ...

About 25 miles down river, Caballo Reservoir can impound an additional 350,000 acre-feet. In a good year, these reservoirs together release about 790,000 acre-feet; 416,000 is allocated to the Elephan ...