A recent New York Times article on the potential slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) dovetails with 15-years of supported research by the CPO Climate Variability & Predictability Program.
This study is a step towards accurate modeling of the MJO, a challenge that has troubled the weather and climate science community for some time.
The collaboratively built tool helps answer the common question asked of Alaskan climatologists: has it been particularly hot/cold lately?
In recent years, there has been an alarming uptick in the number and geographic spread of mosquito-borne diseases, and the places where mosquitoes can thrive due to the temperature and precipitation of the area are shifting and growing as global temperatures rise and precipitation becomes more variable.
Climate model projections can be hindered by complexities inherent in the climate system, and difficulty in detecting the part of the forecast that can be accurately predicted (signals) as well as constraining uncertainties (noise). These problems can be hard to fix, as climate model projections cannot be verified until there are observations.
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.Â