To understand how structural fires at the wildland urban interface contribute to air pollution, recent tests measured gas and particle emissions from burning structural materials under realistic fire conditions.
NOAA’s Climate Resilience Toolkit group recently worked with members of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to facilitate updates to federal agency Climate Adaptation Plans.
The National Integrated Heat Health Information System will soon publish two new documents to help local communities evaluate their successes in heat governance and identify challenges and areas for future improvement.
Across the United States, only Alaska has higher-than-average odds of a cool July. Elsewhere, July is favored to be much warmer than average. That heat forecast plays a big role in expectations for significant drought expansion this month.
Matthew Rosencrans of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center tells us why NOAA predicts a very active Atlantic hurricane season.
“This investment will support NOAA and its partners in better preparing Western communities for droughts in the coming years and decades.”
Eleven new projects aim to identify and better understand evolving climate risks, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity for islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
The study evaluated the accuracy of four major reanalysis data sets in representing daily and extreme temperature across the United States, finding results least reliable in the mountainous western US, likely due to the complex terrain.
Temperatures across the North Atlantic Ocean have been record hot for more than a year.