pitted experts against players to answer the following question: What will the water level be in Lake Mead on July 31, 2015? According to the U. S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the ...

harvest in Oregon and Washington and a large portion of Washington's Dungeness crab fisheries. In California, the California Fish and Game Commission had to close the year-round rock crab fishery nort ...

about equal to the decrease caused by aerosols. Aerosols have complex interactions with the atmosphere, more than just reflecting sunlight back into space, including warming the atmosphere and affecti ...

Hoerling, Stephanie Herring, all from NOAA, and Peter Stott, from the UK Met Office, appear in the list's "Leading Global Thinkers: Naturals" category. Foreign Policy's editors say they were chosen fo ...

of 5 degrees South were the southeasterly trade winds stronger than usual. As of now, these atmosphere-ocean conditions, apparently unfavorable for the developing Atlantic Niña event, are quite perple ...

La Niña tends to reduce wind shear—the change in wind between the surface and high up the atmosphere. Less wind shear can make it easier for hurricanes to strengthen. NOAA's hurricane outlook comes ou ...

especially tricky. One way scientists can estimate our technological ability to detect a change in reflectivness is by studying natural "climate engineering" events, especially large volcanic eruption ...

to provide trustworthy information on how, where, and to what extent Earth's land, oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets are changing. ...

over northern Mexico. The jet stream, the narrow area of fast-moving winds high up in the atmosphere, had become unbelievably wavy. It dipped down much farther south than normal over Mexico and much f ...

temperatures and hurricanes. Would fit in well with a class learning about weather, ocean/ atmosphere interactions, or hurricanes. Focuses mostly on hurricanes with information about how they're formed ...