Future Urban Growth and Flood Risk in North Carolina. Researchers identified areas vulnerable to urban growth in Pender County, North Carolina. The team analyzed land cover change, mapped wetlands in ...

on supercomputers right now. In the models that generated the maps featured above, the atmosphere is allowed to respond freely to pre-set changes in the ocean or land surface that the scientists speci ...

Once active, La Niña conditions are reinforced by feedback processes between the ocean and atmosphere. Read more about those feedbacks here. What else is providing confidence in the forecast? There is ...

race, could be the difference between winning and losing. Same goes for the movement of our atmosphere—you better know, for example, exactly where the cold front is setting up and where you are relati ...

the public place. Click the base map to get information about the average summer high temperature in different sections of the city. In the pop-up, click any link of interest to to learn more about ho ...

fuels contain the carbon drawn out of the atmosphere by land and ocean plants over millions of years. More than a century ago, Earth scientists speculated that burning those fuels—returning that huge ...

does make its way to the deep ocean, and the timescale for that carbon returning to the atmosphere can be measured in hundreds of years. If as little as 1 percent of the annual otter-driven increase i ...

we did not see weaken was the La Niña-like atmospheric pattern over the tropical Pacific. The atmosphere typically responds to La Niña's cooler-than-average sea surface with a stronger-than-average Wa ...

of products and services by integrating the work within NOAA and among its partners engaged in developing and delivering climate services at the regional level, including the Regional Integrated Scien ...

adaptation options for national forests and national parks that manage more than 28 million acres in northern Idaho, Montana, northwestern Wyoming, North Dakota, and northern South Dakota. The large n ...