most part, done at a very large scale and can't predict the finer scale changes that we will see in a water body such as the Gulf of Maine. But, I think the clear thing is there will be changes, there ...

the past 150 years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing over time due to human emissions. As a result, the ocean is absorbing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from t ...

should liken it to an overflowing toilet," and "No, a planetary wave isn't a tsunami in the atmosphere." 2. Other datasets have a similar pattern, even if the exact numbers of events are a little diff ...

the 1981-2010 average. They will update the climatology every five years. The next update will be in 2016, at which point the average for calculating La Niña and El Niño for the current decade will sh ...

visibility and altering snowmelt, precipitation patterns, water quality, and soil properties. In addition to public health impacts, projected trends in extreme fire events have important implications ...

do any activity. This resource is a collection of lessons that explore light and color in our atmosphere, and how and why these colors change with different atmospheric conditions and time of day. "Se ...

the winter season that the influence of quickly evolving sources of predictability from the atmosphere (the "weather noise") has little effect on the forecast. I want to remove the influence of these ...

There are two options: 1. Converting units such as kilowatts or gallons of gasoline into CO2 equivalents, or 2. Converting CO2 emissions or CO2 equivalents (or other GHG such as methane) into equival ...

the surface of the ocean, melting sea ice doesn't contribute to sea level rise. But the reduction in summer ice extent has other significant consequences on climate and Arctic life. It accelerates Arc ...

and the Walker Circulation, which operates like a vertical loop through the tropical Pacific atmosphere—is weakened. This weakness shows up as more clouds and rain in the central and/or eastern Pacifi ...