s atmosphere includes billions and billions of gallons of evaporated water: in fact, water vapor is Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas. Like the stuffing in an insulated sleeping bag, water vapor ab ...

sits Port Fourchon—the hub that services 90 percent of all deepwater oil drilling activity in the Gulf of Mexico. The only road leading to and from this major port is the Louisana-1 Highway. Up to 1,2 ...

of El Niño and the 45-year trend, along with the emissions that humans are putting into the atmosphere ("radiative forcings"). The maps below reveal what their experiments uncovered. Little butt wiggl ...

against players to answer the following question: What percent area of the United States will be in severe drought or worse in June 2015? According to the U. S. National Drought Monitor project, the p ...

instruments out in the field we're better able to describe what the current state of the atmosphere is, and therefore we can get a better idea of how much wind energy there will be in the immediate fu ...

the recovered satellite images provided enough detail for scientists to estimate sea ice extent in September, the typical month of the winter maximum in the Southern Hemisphere. The map shows the best ...

system, either. One thing is for certain, though: This storm was able to wring out an atmosphere over Louisiana and Mississippi that had near-record amounts of moisture in it. The atmospheric sponge w ...

to warm much more than the global average. If global warming continues at an increasing rate, in several decades the world is likely to be warmer than it's been for over a million years, with unpredic ...

relatively cooler or warmer temperatures on the ocean surface. Because coupling between the atmosphere and ocean is linked to tropical rainfall changes, relative SSTs help us better identify those reg ...

stakeholder groups. Follow the link below to access this Peer to Peer case study as published in Digital Coast by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management. Promoting Ecotourism to Conserve a Watershed i ...