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Department:June 24, 2020Not a Mad Lib! Our blogger lays out some of the evidence for and against the notion that volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño.
Department:April 15, 2020The most comprehensive database ever assembled of paleoclimate proxies that tell scientists about temperatures since the last ice age ended around 12,000 years ago has been released to the public.
Department:April 8, 2020In 2015, NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO) invited grant proposals from sea ice and climate scientists looking to better understand and predict Arctic sea ice behavior, on timescales ranging from days to decades. This is our second story on some of the resulting research.
Department:June 30, 2020Transcript available! On Wednesday, February 5, climate expert Dr. Gijs de Boer answered questions in a Climate.gov tweet chat about the ATOMIC cloud-science mission in Barbados. Read the transcript.
Department:January 23, 2020Kidding. Here's why the polar vortex may also cause you to take off your sweater sometimes.
Department:October 23, 2019A blog post on the Blob. Blob, Blob, Blob. But here's why you shouldn't call it the Blob.
Department:September 26, 2019New research weighs in on a popular debate about whether reduced Arctic sea ice is causing extreme mid-latitude winters. Their result? Blame the atmosphere, not the ice.
Department:September 12, 2019The tropical Pacific Ocean may be ENSO-neutral, but there are still plenty of climate-and-weather topics to talk about.
Department:July 17, 2019American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.
Department:February 28, 2019Why did atmospheric El Niño conditions fail to develop this past fall? Our blogger tries to unravel the mystery of the missing central Pacific rainfall.
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