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Water Resources Dashboard

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: February 25, 2016

U. S. Climate Resilience Toolkit identified as useful for the Water sector in Alaska and the Arctic Region. Visit data source . Gre ...

Hot & Cold: Monthly Temperature Anomalies in 2010

Section: News & Features

Published: August 9, 2011

across the Northern Hemisphere were largely dominated by a strong negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. The dramatic differences from average temperatures on either side of the North Atlantic—unus ...

Gulf Stream Heat Budget and Europe's Mild Climate: A Problem-based Learning Activity

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm and the potential effects if polar ice were to continue melting." Activity can be modified to answer numerous research questions. Great way f ...

2015 State of the Climate: Mountain Glaciers

Section: News & Features

Published: August 2, 2016

climate is warming over the long term. References . Pelto, M. S., 2016: Alpine Glaciers and Ice Sheets [in "State of the Climate in 2015"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97 (8 ...

Climate Change: Incoming Sunlight

Section: News & Features

Published: September 1, 2009

velocity. The Maunder Minimum partially overlapped a centuries-long cold spell called the Little Ice Age, which was strongest in the Northern Hemisphere between 1450 -1850. In contrast, the Sun was u ...

The polar vortex is acting up

Section: News & Features

Published: January 16, 2024

of the temperatures and weakening of the polar vortex winds that are 19 miles above us over the Arctic. So far, this disruption of the polar vortex has been minor, falling short of the wind reversal ( ...

Energy and the Poor - Black Carbon in Low Income Nations

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

the soot particles warm the atmosphere by absorbing heat and reducing albedo when deposited on ice and snow. Introduction of the term albedo and changes in albedo due to changes in surface colors are ...

Earth has fourth-warmest October on record in 2021

Section: News & Features

Published: November 16, 2021

Mexico and the U. S. Southwest. For more details on October climate, including updates on sea ice, tropical cyclones, and noteworthy extreme events, see NCEI's Assessing the global climate in October ...

State of the Climate: 2011 Stratospheric Temperature

Section: News & Features

Published: July 10, 2012

motion of warm air from the tropics to higher latitudes and the poles. Cold temperatures in the Arctic stratosphere may have contributed to the severe decline in ozone levels in the Arctic stratospher ...

U. S. climate summary for January 2024

Section: News & Features

Published: February 9, 2024

Highlights . * The arctic air mass from January 14-18 broke nearly 2,500 daily minimum temperatures county records from the Northwest to the Lower Mississippi Valley. * On January 22-25, heavy rai ...