The season had brought floods to the Missouri River starting in May, and they had not let up. In late July 2011, as flooding persisted and a brutal heat wave gripped much of the United States, corn fa ...

La Niña events. For example, 8 of the 11 strong and moderate events show the cool conditions in the Northern Great Plains, which is most winters, but not all. This "failure" of the typical pattern occ ...

M. McCammon, A. D. McGuire, and M. Serreze. (2014). Ch. 22: Alaska. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T. C.) Richmond, and G. W ...

deadly. Due to the counterclockwise rotation of the winds around a low-pressure storm system in the Northern Hemisphere, areas to the east of the center of the weekend storm system saw strong southerl ...

from 1981-2010. If all we had to go on was history, this map says the best chances of clear skies in the contiguous United States (CONUS) would be found, not surprisingly, in the West. Based on past F ...

outlooks . A reminder of the limits of seasonal outlooks. When the row crop working group met in August 2010, the farmers were eager as always to hear from David Zierden, the Florida State Climatologi ...

Published : . September 2010. Guidance for federal and state agencies and coastal planners for conducting sea level change assessments and mapping. The report is intended to provide t ...

Published : . May 2007. This report summarizes findings from a review of coastal hazards associated with sea level rise, hurricanes, nor'easters, and reduced sediment supply. The stud ...

downward trend since the 1970s in the annual maximum extent of Great Lakes ice cover, which reaches a maximum every year during late winter and early spring, spells trouble for the Great Lakes ecosyst ...

data sources showed that ice extent matched or even fell below the record-setting low extent in 2007. The Arctic ice cap grows each winter as the sun sets for several months and shrinks each summer as ...