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- Department:October 4, 2021
The October 2021 climate outlook favors a warmer-than-average month for the central and eastern United States and wetter-than-average conditions for the Plains.
- Department:September 27, 2021
But lower emissions will reduce the intensity of the driest years of megadrought events.
- Department:September 23, 2021
The latest IPCC report on the Physical Science Basis of climate change covers pretty much everything you can think of, including ENSO. So what were its conclusions? Our ENSO Bloggers walk us through the report's conclusions and what they mean.
- Department:September 23, 2021
By 2030, the combination of extreme heat and atmospheric dryness that made the ongoing drought so extreme is likely to return more than once a decade. Such record-low precipitation, however, is likely to remain rare.
- Department:September 15, 2021
It was the sixth-warmest August on record for the globe. It's very likely that the year will wind up among the 10 warmest years on record.
Keeping up the standard: Calibrating for accurate ozone monitoring
Department:September 15, 2021Source:Earlier this summer, experts at NOAA's Global Monitoring Lab performed their regular check of the calibration of the device that sets the world standard for measurements of ozone in the stratosphere.
New research helps crack the mystery of clouds to improve climate prediction
Department:September 13, 2021Source:A special issue of the open access journal Earth System Science Data showcases results and datasets from a month-long field campaign in Barbados in 2020.
- Department:September 10, 2021
August was warmer than average, capping off a summer that tied for warmest on record.
- Department:September 9, 2021
La Niña conditions are likely to develop soon. Our blogger gives you the low-down on all things tropical Pacific.
- Department:August 9, 2021
Much of the U.S. Southwest is near-desert. What does drought even mean in a place like that?











