The Climate.gov team provided visual highlights to accompany the latest installment of NOAA's Arctic Report Card, released December, 15 2015.
NOAA’s Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) program competitively funded 11 new three-year projects totaling $4.6 million in grants and $1.2 million in other awards to support 38 researchers, postdocs, and students at 15 institutions.
In 2015, NOAA’s Arctic Research Program competitively funded three new five-year projects involving $4.2 million in grants (and benefit from additional support by interagency and international partners). Through these three new projects, university partners will help to carry out multidisciplinary observations and research for five years (from 2015 to 2020), in support of analysis, and modeling in the Pacific Arctic, i.e., the Chukchi Beaufort Sea, the East Siberian Sea, and the Arctic Ocean north of these regions.
Work supported by CPO's AC4 program found that the effects of melting permafrost in the Arctic could cost $43 trillion in extra economic damage by the end of the next century, on top of the more than the $300 trillion economic damage already predicted.
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