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Record low spring snow cover in Northern Hemisphere 2012
In June 2012, snow cover extent over Eurasia and North America hit a new record low. It is the third time in five years that North America has set a new record low, and the fifth year in a row that...
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High-latitude growing season getting longer
Related images Days added to start of season: with labels | without labels Days added to end of season: with labels | without labels Few real-world signs of climate change are easier to read than...
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2012 Arctic Report Card
NOAA released the 2012 installment of the annual Arctic Report Card on December 5, 2012, as part of the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting. You won’t find these graphics in the Report Card...
View ArticleWater Waning into Winter
Deke Arndt, Chief Climate Monitoring Branch, NOAA’s NCDC It’s natural to associate drought with heat and with summer, but drought also impacts us during winter months. Summer is over, but the drought...
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Talking about the Arctic with NOAA Administrator Lubchenco
Shallow melt ponds on the surface of the consolidated sea ice pack in the Chukchi Sea in July 2011. Photo by Karen Frey. Climate.gov’s Brian Kahn interviews NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco about...
View ArticleThe Pushy Pacific: Variability and Change in Global Temperature
Deke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch, National Climatic Data Center When the Pacific Ocean warms and cools with El Niño and La Niña, we see global temperature rise and fall. This pattern...
View ArticleExtreme Events of 2012
Deke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch, National Climatic Data Center Drought, cold, and massive storms were among the devastating climate-related events that struck the United States in...
View ArticleExtreme Events of 2012: Global to Local Responses
Deke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch, National Climatic Data Center There were many extreme weather events around the globe during 2012. Let’s take a look at the climate context....
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In Watching for El Niño and La Niña, NOAA Adapts to Global Warming
No single climate phenomenon has more influence on year-to-year variation in average global temperature than the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). When the central tropical Pacific Ocean is warmer...
View ArticleTo escape drought, slow and steady wins the race
Deke Arndt, Climate Monitoring Branch Chief, National Climatic Data Center During late winter, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas received sorely needed rain which helped reduce short-term impacts, like...
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