Just how powerful is the current El Niño? There’s more to the story than the very warm equatorial Pacific.

“Arctic amplification” of climate change remained in full swing in 2015, according to the 2015 Arctic Report Card. Broad areas of the Arctic were more than 5°F (3°C) warmer than average during the report card’s monitoring year (October 2014-September 2015).

Increasing air and sea surface temperatures, decreasing sea ice extent and Greenland ice sheet mass, and changing behavior of fish and walrus are among key observations released today in the Arctic Report Card 2015.

Summary: Communities located downstream from dams can learn about risks and find information about how to react if they fail. Dam owners, safety officials, and lawmakers can learn how extreme rainfall events affect the risk of dam failure, and how to reduce those risks.

Sea level rise can exacerbate flooding, shoreline erosion, and storm hazards, making coastal communities more vulnerable. Recently, the rate of sea level rise has increased due to melting glaciers ... ...

Few places on Earth are more strongly affected by El Niño than the Galápagos Islands, which straddle the equator in the eastern tropical Pacific. Guest blogger Kris Karnauskas explains why these unique islands are so biologically productive—and what happens to that productivity during El Niño. 

A new CVP-supported study by Chen et al. titled "Intraseasonal Variability of Upwelling in the Equatorial Eastern Indian Ocean" has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans . By . ...

A new study funded by CPO's Climate Observation Division was recently published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . The study by Cheng et al. examines in-depth studies and offers ...

Predictions at the seasonal to sub-seasonal scale are important for planning and decision-making in a variety of disciplines, and improving understanding and model skill at this timescale is a key ... ...

The School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley conducted a foreign exchange to Costa Rick in late July. In Costa Rica the students worked together along with students at Liceo de Poas to inform the students about the change in the climate and how it effects growing seasons for coffee, Costa Rica's highest agriculture export.