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721-730 of 1004 results for Arctic Ice

Coastal Infrastructure

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: October 13, 2016

2017 - 9:18am. Browse Regions : Regions * Alaska and the Arctic * Great Lakes * Hawai'i and Pacific Islands * Midwest ...

2015 State of the Climate: Drought

Section: News & Features

Published: August 2, 2016

dry conditions during El Niño. The graph shows the percentage of global land area (excluding ice sheets and deserts) in a moderate, severe, or extreme drought. By the end of 2015*, 30% of the global ...

2012 State of the Climate: Global Sea Level

Section: News & Features

Published: July 31, 2013

decades. Part of the increase is due to more water being added—meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets—and part of the increase is due to rising water temperatures: water expands in volume when it get ...

How do scientists classify different types of climate?

Section: Maps & Data

Published: November 21, 2014

modified by biome names. Class names based on environmental indicators include names such as Arctic tundra, subtropical rainforest, and montane forests. Lifezone Classification. The Holdridge Life Zon ...

Changes in wind shear accompany shift in latitude where hurricanes reach maximum intensity

Section: News & Features

Published: June 10, 2014

that have migrated in response to warming climate: penguins, Atlantic cod, butterflies, pikas, Arctic shrubs…. . The list could go on for pages. Recent research from NOAA-affiliated scientists suggest ...

December 2022 U. S. Climate Outlook: A colder-than-average end to the year favored in the north

Section: News & Features

Published: December 1, 2022

forecasters' minds. The models used by forecasters also are in high agreement that a negative Arctic Oscillation and negative North Atlantic Oscillation will be in place during the first half of the m ...

Recent study advances understanding of atmospheric rivers and Arctic climate changes

Section: News & Features

Published: July 30, 2024

between atmospheric rivers (ARs), which are long, narrow bands of concentrated water vapor, and Arctic climate. The team included University of California, Santa Barbara scientist Qinghua Ding, who is ...

December 2021 U. S. Climate Outlook: A La Niña-like pattern with warmth over much of the U. S.

Section: News & Features

Published: December 1, 2021

in Alaska. A combination of La Nina influences as well as a predicted positive state of the Arctic Oscillation for the first two weeks of the month is likely to keep much of the anomalous cold north o ...

April 2021 outlook: Warmth expected for much of the contiguous US…except you, Pacific Northwest

Section: News & Features

Published: April 2, 2021

when forecasters are discussing the influences on the monthly outlook, phrases like ENSO, Arctic Oscillation, and the MJO are thrown around. But one influence you might not think about is how much moi ...

Summer enhancement of Arctic sea-ice volume anomalies in the September-ice zone

Section: News & Features

Published: March 2, 2017

A paper appearing as an early online release in the Journal of Climate documents research on sea ice to understand essential processes in the climate system and other ecological systems. Researchers ...