ice cover) is solid white. Although some areas experienced unusually low sea surface temperatures in August 2013—especially in the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas—unusually high sea surface temperature ...

Fahrenheit), were located just north of the Hawaiian Islands (north of the equator roughly in image center), with temperatures 0.5 degree C (0.9 degree F) above normal across American Samoa, western M ...

about Climate Models ». 3. As heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels accumulate in our atmosphere, less of the energy that enters the Earth system as sunlight is able to exit. Some portions of ...

a record-warm December, the atmosphere seemed to remember in January that it was supposed to be winter in the United States. As detailed in the January climate summary from NOAA National Centers for E ...

within the next six months. (Also, of course, La Niña—just like El Niño—is a seasonal ocean/ atmosphere pattern that develops in the tropical Pacific Ocean, so it might be tough to see it from your win ...

bodega is incomplete without a cat. As a child, Shae often visited Crotona Park, the largest park in the South Bronx. At Crotona, she would visit Indian Lake, a 3.3-acre lake with ducks, turtles, and ...

that reaches a site can be measured by an instrument called a pyranometer. At the top of the atmosphere, similar instruments on satellites measure the amount of incoming solar radiation. Explore curre ...

temperature and precipitation based on the observed abundance of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and to project future conditions based upon a set of four scenarios that describe specific ways t ...

Pacific; it's the atmospheric half of El Niño. Since ENSO is a coupled system, meaning the atmosphere and ocean influence each other, both need to meet the criteria for El Niño before we declare El Ni ...

the potential for climate engineering and the beneficial effects of limiting emissions of non- CO2 greenhouse gases. From 1968 to 1993, he led climate modeling studies at the Lawrence Livermore Nation ...