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Failed monsoon rains that reignited the southwestern U.S. drought. A spring heat wave in western Europe. Intense Siberian wildfires. Scientists say human-caused climate change made these extreme weather events more likely, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

NOAA and partners have launched approximately 100 new Argo floats across the Atlantic Ocean to collect data that supports ocean, weather and climate research and prediction. These will bolster the international Argo Program, which maintains a global array of about 3,800 floats that measure pressure, temperature and salinity of the upper 1.2 miles of the ocean.

Data-driven tools will help communities accelerate equitable resilience.

The fingerprints of La Niña were all over the global precipitation map.

Pattrn, a group committed to data-driven, participatory fact mapping, highlighted work by the Western Water Assessment (WWA) Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) team in a new video.

Climate change is transforming the Arctic into a ‘dramatically different state.’ Browse this collection of image highlights from NOAA's 2021 Arctic Report Card.

But fires and other disturbances create patches of "browning" in satellites' view of Arctic vegetation.

Greenland has lost ice mass every year since 1998. Losses in 2021 would have added about 0.2 millimeters to global sea level.

A record-warm autumn boosted Arctic 2020-21 surface temperatures to the rank of seventh-warmest year on record since 1900.

Ice older than 4 years once dominated the winter ice pack in the Arctic. Today, only a tiny fraction of old, thick survives.