Preparing the nation for the impacts of climate change, tracking greenhouse gas emissions, and better understanding wildfire behavior count among the top achievements of NOAA research in 2022.
A new webinar, “Decision Support Research on Climate-Sensitive Health Risks: Highlights from the NOAA Climate Program Office’s (CPO) Climate and Societal Interactions Division (CSI),” is planned for January 19, 2023.
Marine cloud brightening (MCB), injecting aerosol particles into marine clouds to increase their reflectivity, is intended to temporarily cool the planet while pursuing decarbonication. A report from an April 2022 MCB workshop is now available online.
As climate change amplifies water stressors across the United States, not all areas feel the same pinch. Join the Western Water Assessment’s call for public comment on a climate assessment draft on January 12, 2023.
Climate.gov collaborated with Arctic experts to produce a collection of magazine-quality data visualizations for the 2022 Annual Arctic Report Card. Report editors used the images in their story about the report card in The Conversation.
Snow-cover duration continued a longer-term pattern in 2021–22, of significantly faster springtime snowmelt.
Ship traffic is increasing as sea ice dwindles—not just in near-shore, territorial waters of Arctic coastal countries, but increasingly, in the high seas of the Central Arctic Ocean.
The 2022 melt season on the Greenland Ice Sheet started slowly, but ended late, with multiple melt spikes in September.
Arctic temperatures over 2021-22 were the sixth-warmest on record, based on records dating back to 1900.
Highlights from the 2022 update to NOAA's Arctic Report Card in maps and charts.