temperatures around the globe have risen about 0.12°C per decade since 1980. In the coastal Northeast, sea surface temperatures warmed by nearly double the global rate from 1982 to 2006. These warming ...

to continue, according to the Fourth National Climate Assessment. It is with this problem in mind that NOAA's Climate Program Office, the Centers for Disease Control, and domestic and international pa ...

uses GPS and a microwave ranging system to map Earth's gravity field, detecting fluctuations in the gravity field connected to changes in the mass of water reserves below the surface. In a recent stud ...

prevail. The year was also characterized by a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation pattern in the North Pacific. The classic signal of a negative PDO phase is a horseshoe-shaped area of cool water in ...

Reef, and discussed the low likelihood of significant long-term recovery. This was published in the cover paper in Nature in March 2017, just as Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority an ...

being affected by the drought. Nearly a quarter of the winter wheat crop is categorized either in poor or very poor condition. Across the Plains, winter wheat yields are below average, especially in N ...

it a central role in stabilizing Earth's climate system. Yearly and even decades-long variations in ocean heat content occur due to natural climate patterns like El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscill ...

Knowing instantly that Jim was correct, I did what any self-respecting climate writer would do in that situation: I replied by email, pretending that I intended all along to cover Tmax and Tmin in a f ...

water supply, right as El Niño began to deliver a series of storms to Northern California early in the New Year. Looking Forward. While we can definitely cheer the raised odds for rain on the West Coa ...

Oscillation and the Tropical Atlantic Gradient. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation describes shifts in ocean temperatures in the northern and equatorial Pacific. The basin generally spends 20-30 years in ...