Did you watch the weather forecast today? Do you ever wonder where meteorologists get the information that helps them predict the weather?
CPO's Climate Observation Division contributed to two new Ocean Today kiosk videos: "El Niño and La Niña Explained" and "Observing El Niño."
NOAA’s Climate Monitoring program competitively selected two new three-year projects totaling $855,734 in grants to produce observation-based global and (preferably) regional indices that facilitate monitoring the status, trends, extremes, and variability of ocean physical properties for the benefit of research, predictions, and decision makers. The two new projects join 13 multi-year projects totaling $2.2 million, that were funded last year in the same competition.
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.
Americans’ health, security and economic wellbeing are tied to climate and weather. Every day, we see communities grappling with environmental challenges due to unusual or extreme events related to climate and weather.