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Physical Scientist position open in CPO’s Arctic Research Program

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New Ocean Today Video Released! Satellites of the Sea: Observing the Ocean for Hurricane Research June marks World Ocean Month and the start of hurricane season. Here at NOAA, we conduct tons of research to help improve our understanding of hurricanes so that we can more accurately predict hurricanes, and save lives and property. Ocean observations have a key […]

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Review of wave intensity over 60 years shows strong links to multi-decadal cycles

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New Ocean Today Video Released! Satellites of the Sea: Observing the Ocean for Hurricane Research Powerful wave on Oahu’s North Shore Photo: Kanaka Menehune www.flickr.com/photos/kanaka/  A study co-authored by scientists from University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center provides a new perspective on

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CPO’s Stanitski presents for JASON Learning

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CPO’s Stanitski presents for JASON Learning As part of her role as a NOAA Host Researcher for the JASON Learning curriculum Climate: Seas of Change, CPO’s Diane Stanitski – program manager of the Ocean Climate Observation program – gave six presentations to students, faculty, and parents in Houston, Texas from Jan. 15-16.  The day and evening

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Long-term warming and environmental change trends persist in the Arctic in 2013

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Long-term warming and environmental change trends persist in the Arctic in 2013 NOAA’s annual Arctic Report Card, introduced in 2006 by the NOAA Climate Program Office, found that cooler temperatures in the summer of 2013 across the central Arctic Ocean, Greenland and northern Canada moderated the record sea ice loss and extensive melting that the surface

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Physics Today publishes article from Arctic Report Card data

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Physics Today publishes article from Arctic Report Card data Physics Today has just published the article “The Arctic shifts to a new Normal,” authored by Martin Jeffries, James Overland and Donald Perovich.  This is an outgrowth of the 2012 release of the NOAA Arctic Report Card, a synthesis product supported by the Arctic Research Program of CPO. Martin

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A milestone in advancing the physical science basis of climate variability and change

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A milestone in advancing the physical science basis of climate variability and change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report on “The Physical Science Basis” of climate change has been completed and will appear online on Sept. 30, 2013. This report represents a milestone in the understanding of the Earth system and climate

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CPO-Supported Researcher Receives the 2013 Prince Albert I Medal

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CPO-Supported Researcher Receives the 2013 Prince Albert I Medal Professor Arnold Gordon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, received the 2013 Prince Albert I Medal in Sweden on Wednesday, July 24 “for his outstanding contribution in observational oceanography and in particular for his work in defining the physical processes in the Southern Ocean and Indonesian Throughflow.”

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CPO’s Stanitski featured in new ‘JASON Learning’ middle school curriculum

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CPO’s Stanitski featured in new ‘JASON Learning’ middle school curriculum Diane Stanitski and her husband, CAPT John Adler (NOAA Corps) with JASON Argonauts. A new climate curriculum for middle school called, “Climate: Seas of Change” was released last week as part of JASON Learning (formerly The JASON Project).  Diane Stanitski of NOAA’s Climate Program Office is highlighted

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New Article Highlights Challenges of Research in the High Latitudes

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New Article Highlights Challenges of Research in the High Latitudes The article, “High-Latitude Ocean and Sea Ice Surface Fluxes: Challenges for Climate Research” was published in the March Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) issue and is now available online.  Three scientists funded through the NOAA Climate Program Office Climate Observation Division—Mark Bourassa (Florida State University), Meghan

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New Video Series from NOAA Ocean Today Explores the Role of Sea Ice in the Ocean​

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New Video Series from NOAA Ocean Today Explores the Role of Sea Ice in the Ocean The 2012 Arctic summer sea ice extent is the lowest since taking measurement. In a new three-part video series from NOAA Ocean Today, learn about sea ice and why it is so important; how scientists are detecting and measuring change

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