News & Research Highlights

Great Lakes ice cover affects activities ranging from shipping to recreation. Accurate forecasts are critical, but forecast products have been spatially and temporally limited. The next generation of NOAA’s Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (GLOFS) aims to fill information gaps.

New research published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics projects future emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a class of potent greenhouse gasses, based on recent trends and compliance with curr ...

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, CO2 levels were consistently around 280 ppm for almost 6,000 years of human civilization. Carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory reached 421 parts per million in May 2022.

Western Water Assessment has recently improved and updated its High-Impact Weather and Climate Events Database, a collection of significant weather and climate-related events in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

Western Water Assessment (WWA) has just released the Utah Hazard Planning Tool, which provides resources about the historical incidence, current risk, and future projections of natural hazards in the state.

This summer’s western wildfire season is likely to be more severe than average but not as devastating as last year’s near-record, according to an experimental prediction method developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

NOAA Climate.gov's Tom Di Liberto was nominated for a regional (Chesapeake Bay region) Emmy award in the host/moderator/correspondent category at the upcoming Capital Emmy awards

During the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) will again help NOAA prepare the public for severe weather. They will also conduct new research on the complexites of how tropical cyclones form, develop, and dissipate.

Ongoing La Niña, above-average Atlantic temperatures set the stage for busy season ahead.

Tropical cyclones pull energy from the ocean surface, typically cooling the sea surface temperature at the same time. A new study finds that intense rainfall under a cyclone reduces the sea surface cooling.