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Headwaters Economics and Great Lakes RISA team release report on using economics to support climate adaptation

December 20, 2019

The new report includes strategies, methods, and case studies of cities that have used economic data and methods to advance climate adaptation programs. ...

A conversation with Leander Anderegg: NOAA postdoc, tree physiologist, outdoorsman

John Dos Passos Coggin | December 19, 2019

This Q&A features tree expert Leander Anderegg and what he is learning about how some of the West's iconic trees—including Colorado's quaking aspen and California's blue oak—survive or succumb to drought.

Preparing for extreme sea levels is different depending on location and time, new study finds

December 18, 2019

Using historical data from tide gauges that line U. S. coasts, researchers funded by CPO's Climate Observations and Monitoring Program created an extreme sea level indicator that identifies how much . ...

December 2019 ENSO update: neutral, rinse, repeat

Tom Di Liberto | December 12, 2019

ENSO-neutral is expected to last through spring 2020. See why in our latest ENSO blog and stay for some ENSO trivia.

2019 Arctic Report Card: At gateways to the Arctic, northern fish are retreating

Rebecca Lindsey | December 10, 2019

As Arctic waters warm, fish and marine mammals are migrating in search of their preferred habitats and food sources. Some species are gaining habitat, while others are being squeezed out by new arriva ...

2019 Arctic Report Card: Melt season on Greenland Ice Sheet rivals record for area and duration

Rebecca Lindsey | December 10, 2019

Under high pressure and sunny skies, roughly 95 percent of the surface experienced melting at some point in the summer, well above the 1981-2010 average of about 64 percent, equivalent to the previous record set in 2012.

2019 Arctic Report Card: As sea ice disappears, Arctic seas are experiencing extreme summer warmth

Rebecca Lindsey | December 10, 2019

With few exceptions, unusual warmth dominated Arctic Ocean basins in 2019.

2019 Arctic Report Card: Old, thick ice barely survives in today's Arctic

Michon Scott | December 10, 2019

In March 1985, sea ice at least four years old made up 33 percent of the ice pack in the Arctic Ocean; in March 2019, ice that old made up 1.2 percent of the pack.

2019 Arctic Report Card: Period of record and near-record warmth continues for sixth straight year

Rebecca Lindsey | December 10, 2019

In 2019, air temperatures over the Arctic were the second-warmest on record, continuing a string of 6 years that have been warmer than all other periods in the historic record dating back to 1900.

2019 Arctic Report Card: Visual highlights

Rebecca Lindsey | December 10, 2019

NOAA’s 14th Arctic Report Card recounts the numerous ways that climate change continues to disrupt the polar region, including massive melt of the Greenland ice sheet and major shifts in the distribution of commercially valuable marine species.

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