Published : . December 2015. This peer-reviewed scientific assessment identifies climate change effects on global food security. Climate change is likely to diminish continued progres ...

Published : . August 2016. This document provides final guidance for federal agencies on how to consider the impacts of their actions on global climate change in their National Enviro ...

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Summary: Explore questions related to climate change impacts on human health through this online database of global scientific literature on the topic.

Providing more timely and accurate information over the western hemisphere, total lightning mapping, and higher resolution images streaming down from space more often, the new GOES satellite marks the first major redesign of the nation’s operational Earth-observing technology in more than 20 years. 

While the U.S. was observing Thanksgiving last week, Costa Rica was facing the first landfalling hurricane on record for the Central American country.

Published : . November 2016. This report examines efforts to develop and implement climate-adaptation projects in 17 cities across the United States. It also presents interviews and i ...

Are sea surface temperatures located north of the equator important for El Niño or La Niña development?  Yes!  Introducing the Pacific Meridional Mode.  

Do sea surface temperatures suggest El Niño or La Niña conditions? Colors on this map show where and by how much monthly sea surface temperature differed from long-term average (1985-1993, details from Coral Reef Watch). Red areas were warmer than average, and blue areas were cooler than average. The darker the color, the larger the difference from the long-term average. White and very light areas were near average. [Editor's note: All maps are based on the 1985-1993 climatology. Due to a processing glitch, maps prior to September 2021 are incorrectly labelled as using a base period of 1981-2010. If correcting this date is important for your use, you can rebuild the image with the assets in the full-resolution zip file.]  Warmer-than-average sea surface temperature across the central and eastern tropical Pacific is one of the indicators of El Niño conditions. El Niño is the name for the warm phase of a major climate pattern called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Conversely, cooler-than-average sea surface temperature across this region is one indicator of La Niña conditions. La Niña is the name for the cool phase of ENSO.

Drought has broken out across the southeast and southern plains this summer and fall. What got us to this situation, and how do we deal drought, which is unlike many of our weather hazards?