students to construct a plan to reduce and remove the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The activity asks students to engage in quantitative modeling to describe the cycling of carbon among ...

Link to the ALISON project found here [link with ample ideas for how students might be able to download the data and compare locations around Alaska. Links to other related publications can also be f ...

space, and the particles aimed at the Earth encounter our planet's magnetic field and upper atmosphere, the thermosphere. The stream of energetic particles warms the thermosphere. Carbon dioxide and n ...

warming, its temperature is still lower than the tropical or middle latitudes, and a colder atmosphere doesn't radiate thermal energy back into space as efficiently as warmer parts of the atmosphere d ...

of dog?). One nice way to visualize the strength of the feedback between the ocean and the atmosphere is to analyze the relationship between the ocean surface warming/cooling and the changes in wind s ...

for the contiguous U. S. was 2.45 inches, just a smidge below average (0.06 inches), which ranks in the middle third of the 127-year period of record. Precipitation was above average—even much above a ...

exceeded the 20th century average. The first part of the year was marked by extreme warmth in the West and cold in the East, but by the end of 2015, record warmth spanned the East with near-average te ...

divide the globe into a three-dimensional grid with many layers reaching up into the atmosphere, to capture many types of information. Provides an excellent beginner's introduction to climate models. ...

rainfall near the Maritime Continent in 2012 is absent in 2014. In other words, while the atmosphere isn't yet acting like El Niño, at least it's not acting like La Niña. Also, this sort of summertime ...

on record, and a record level of heat stress was observed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In a recent Diving Deep podcast, Mark Eakin, NOAA's Coral Reef Watch Coordinator, spoke about how these ...