News & Research Highlights

A new climate model simulates realistic extreme precipitation over the Northeastern United States. By the mid-twenty-first century, the model projects unprecedented rainfall events over the region under the IPCC’s SSP5-8.5 scenario. Extreme precipitation (top 1 percent of daily precipitation) would double its frequency by the end of the century.

In some places, small shifts in tropical precipitation patterns can mean the difference between drought or excess rain, and can alter larger atmospheric patterns. How will tropical preciptation change in a warming climate?

For the first time since 2012, sea ice in the Bering Sea is impacting NOAA’s annual survey. Researchers had to alter their cruise plan to reach several of the mooring and sampling sites.

On May 17, 2023, from 10:30 a.m. – noon ET, the NOAA Adaptation Sciences Program will host a webinar featuring a project focused on developing a Research for Action on Climate Change and Health in the Caribbean.

City and county officials and residents don’t always understand what hazard mitigation is or why it benefits their community, including how it may help with obtaining FEMA funding. NOAA has provided a resource focused on the benefits of hazard mitigation in Oklahoma.

El Niño and La Niña affect weather in the United States, but the connection is a long chain of ocean-to-atmosphere links that climate models don’t always capture. New techniques may help scientists evaluate model accuracy.

A new paper quantifies the role played by phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean, which moderates climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and transporting carbon to the ocean depths.

A new study finds the corals within the Port of Miami’s urbanized environment have demonstrated great resilience against unfavorable conditions, such as poor water quality, excess nutrients, high temperatures, high salinity, and low pH levels.

On April 21, 2023, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) to advance environmental justice initiatives.

Plants emit molecules while growing, reproducing, and defending themselves, and atmospheric chemical reactions turn these compounds into biogenic secondary organic aerosols (SOA). But how do human activities affect biogenic SOA?