ecosystems in the Barents Sea—a sub-arctic shelf sea bordering the Arctic Ocean—are warming faster than the global average, according to the 2015 Arctic Report Card, contributing to a northward shift ...

are close to average, and now cooler, deeper waters have begun surfacing. Now that both the atmosphere and the ocean have shifted away from El Niño, the event is truly over. Beneath the surface of the ...

industry leaders, and the public better understand the dynamics of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so they can make more informed decisions regarding their emissions of this greenhouse gas. ESRL scie ...

persist for 5 consecutive, overlapping 3-month periods (e.g., DJF, JFM, FMA, etc), and. * the atmosphere over the tropical Pacific exhibits one or more of the changes commonly associated with El Niño: ...

some shading show some relationship between summer temperature outcomes and June precipitation. In those places, all else being equal (though it's usually not), wet conditions late in the spring tilt ...

over the full 18-year record was 268 ± 14 billion metric tons per year. Greenland ice loss in 2019 was enough to raise global ocean level by 0.06 inches (1.5 millimeters). That amount might seem small ...

that blow from east to west near the equator, and stronger west-to-east winds high up in the atmosphere. Both strengthened wind patterns were observed during October, providing more evidence that the ...

Niña strengthened over October, with both the tropical Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere clearly reflecting La Niña conditions. Forecasters estimate at least a 95% chance La Niña will last through the ...

highest in December. Long-Term Changes. The Northern Hemisphere's low snow cover extent in 2012 continued a long-term trend, as the graph above shows. From the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, snow c ...

and produce a simple handout to use as a communication tool that puts future sea level rise in the context of existing tidal flooding problems, read the Taking Action Story Designing a Communications ...