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On Thursday, January 19, 2023, the Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) Portal team will host a webinar demonstrating the CMRA Portal and Assessment Tool. Anyone interested in learning more is encouraged to register for the webinar.

On December 29, 2022, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) submitted its 2022 U.S. Climate Ambitions Report. Coauthored by NOAA Climate Program Office personnel, the report details policies to reach climate targets, and build resilience to climate change impacts.

Unlike Europe, the U.S., and China, the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) has experienced rising air pollution over the last 20 years. New research finds that rising carbon dioxide may slow wind speeds in the region, further worsening air quality.

The January 2023 climate outlook favors a wetter-than-average start to the new year for the western US, northern Plains, Great Lakes and Tennessee Valley, and a warmer-than-average month for the central and eastern United States.

An environmental DNA sampler, an underwater glider, a saildrone, and some floats are among the instruments highlighted in NOAA’s 12 Days of Instruments.

Cloud-computing technology that improves climate prediction counts among the NOAA’s successful technology partnerships in 2022.

Two guest bloggers explain how Rossby waves create a globe-spanning superhighway that connects climate patterns even when they are far apart.

Preparing the nation for the impacts of climate change, tracking greenhouse gas emissions, and better understanding wildfire behavior count among the top achievements of NOAA research in 2022.

A new webinar, “Decision Support Research on Climate-Sensitive Health Risks: Highlights from the NOAA Climate Program Office’s (CPO) Climate and Societal Interactions Division (CSI),” is planned for January 19, 2023.

Marine cloud brightening (MCB), injecting aerosol particles into marine clouds to increase their reflectivity, is intended to temporarily cool the planet while pursuing decarbonication. A report from an April 2022 MCB workshop is now available online.