variations on these timescales, so that if you only had one piece of information about the atmosphere, you would want to know about the jet. Commonly used circulation indices such as the North Atlanti ...

waste. Comments from expert scientist: Scientific strengths: - Motivates students to take action in their own schools to combat climate change with realistic options: turning off the lights/AC, creati ...

the key provided with each. The video reports that summer 2012 was the third hottest on record in the U. S. and all of 2012 was on track to being the warmest year in the U. S. (This was confirmed, but ...

in 1750, about the time the Industrial Revolution started. Since then, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 45.7 percent, primarily due to burning of coal, gas, and oil for energy. Additiona ...

call this scale mesoscale—weather systems that range from 5-1,000 kilometers in size. In June and July, the high plains east of the Rockies often experience large hail, damaging winds, and the occasio ...

using this video to start a conversation about climate vulnerability and emotions in the classroom and invite students to describe how climate change has impacted their mental health and how one's loc ...

the concept behind a stabilization triangle (carbon-cutting strategies that can keep the Earth's CO2 emissions trend "flat"). The strategies presented in this activity are i) efficiency and conservat ...

24 hours and covered almost 9,000 miles. GloPac's mission is to measure components of the atmosphere that play significant roles in climate change and the depletion of Earth's protective ozone layer. ...

causes of climate change and how their effect on global temperature changes compares to that of CO2 emission. Scrolling is occasionally wonky - may need to reload if it happens. Otherwise, simple and ...

as "weaker" than hurricanes, but their precipitation can be deadly. This research was funded in part by NOAA's Climate Program Office through its Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) ...