a CIRES scientist working at NOAA's Boulder lab. "Evaporative demand is the thirst of the atmosphere for any water: on the surface, in lakes and rivers, in the ground, or in plants," Hobbins said. "Dr ...

collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space. URL to Main Site for Report : Issuing Agencies : . Bullet ...

the contiguous United States (i.e, the "Lower 48"), the chances for top-tier warmth are greatest in the West and the Northeast (50-60 percent), and smallest in the heart of the Great Plains, where the ...

from the Arctic, documenting changes in the physical environment—including sea ice, the atmosphere, snow, the Greenland Ice Sheet, and carbon stored and released by permafrost—and the impacts on peopl ...

beginning of this month, we find ourselves looking at conditions in both the ocean and the atmosphere that appear a bit like El Niño. Sea surface temperature anomalies in the Niño3.4 region have been ...

of national trends in the environment and human health. One of these indicators is carbon storage in forests, and the ROE Carbon Storage in Forests tool can be used to explore the trends related to th ...

prevents soot from being deposited on the Arctic's icy surfaces, although it remains in the atmosphere absorbing heat for several days or weeks. The bright white surfaces of snow and ice reflect well ...

locations. The number of high tide flood days are expected to continue to rapidly increase in the future due to rising seas in a warming world. By the end of the century, what used to be an occasional ...

drop from February's 2.0°C, which is what we'd expect during the demise of an El Niño. The atmosphere was still responding to those warmer-than-average El Niño surface waters with a reduced Walker Cir ...

expect more rain than usual in this region, so the decreased rain tells forecasters that the atmosphere may not be adequately coupled to the warm SSTs yet. The presence of convection (storminess) in t ...