over recent decades," wrote authors Andrew Altieri of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Keryn Gedan of the University of Maryland College Park and the Smithsonian Environmental ...

storms? This image shows the snowfall accumulations during two of the most severe snowstorms in the Northeast in the past 115 years: the late February nor'easter of 1969 (left) and the mid-March "Stor ...

during dry spells. Winter 2010 was a case in point. The maps at right show the drought status in California before and after two atmospheric river events in January 2010. Moderate to severe drought do ...

is often strongly correlated with the Arctic Oscillation, which describes hemisphere-wide shifts in atmospheric pressure between the Arctic and the mid-latitudes of both the North Pacific and North At ...

having devastating economic and environmental effects and these are likely to continue to do so in the coming months. For climate. gov, I'm Jake Crouch. __ Links . A dry beginning for 2012 acr ...

in its 11th year, the Arctic Report Card, released today at the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco, is a peer-reviewed report that brings together the work of 61 scientist ...

precipitation arrives via winter storms between December and February. For the third winter in a row, precipitation has been below normal across the state. The last week of January is the midway point ...

output and collecting high-frequency data from climate models is essential for capturing land- atmosphere interactions, which are critical for predicting climate phenomena and improving resilience. ...

of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere continues unabated. ...

reliably cold enough for an ozone hole to form. The ozone hole is an annual thin spot that forms in the stratospheric ozone layer over Antarctica in mid-September and October. When it comes to the ozo ...