to develop over the eastern tropical Pacific (top right), the probability for tornado outbreaks in the Upper Midwest increases up to 50 percent during May. When La Niña persists into spring and then r ...

actually reached the surface of the earth and doesn't just keep bouncing around in the atmosphere - Note that this resource simplifies the concept of radiation in the atmosphere by focusing on visible ...

NOAA's summer outlook, most of the United States is favored to have a hotter than average summer in 2017. Only in the Great Plains do forecasters think the chances for a cool or a normal summer are eq ...

figured out where the water was going: agriculture, municipal use, or cooling for power plants. In the majority of places with water stress, the largest water demands come from agriculture, but in a f ...

to grow their shells. The global ocean has soaked up one third of human-caused carbon dioxide ( CO2) emissions since the start of the Industrial Era, increasing the CO2 and acidity of seawater. Increa ...

800,000 years before the twentieth century, carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere never exceeded 300 parts per million. Then the Industrial Revolution began, and modern human civilization starte ...

damages when floods occur. Support for land conservation decisions. Obtaining protection for land in the River Ring is costly and funding is scarce, so the Great Rivers Greenway District needs to targ ...

La Niña threshold of -0.5°C through the winter. Now, on to the critical third step: "Is the atmosphere showing signs of a response to the cooler-than-average sea surface?" Another "yes!" La Niña inten ...

can reduce fungicide applications by half by following the SAS-recommended practices—resulting in a savings of up to $400/acre. Access the tools. The AgroClimate portal is online at There, you can le ...

widely thought that Atlantic Niño is analogous to El Niño in many ways. Specifically, the atmosphere-ocean feedback responsible for the onset of Atlantic Niño is believed to be similar to that of El N ...