Research Highlights

Tropical cyclones (TCs) constitute one of the major natural disasters around the world as well as an important source of fresh water over areas prone…

The precipitation climatology of the Southeastern United States spans a very broad spectrum of precipitation regimes. A warm season that is characterized by isolated thunderstorms,…

With the substantial change in the Arctic sea ice and associated impacts of the change in weather and climate system, ecosystems, and coastal communities, it…

The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) is a network of climate-monitoring stations maintained and operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide…

Meteorological satellites operating in geostationary orbits around the Earth (Fig. 1) provide us with observations of the Earth’s surface and clouds since the early 1970’s.…

The U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) is a network of climate-monitoring stations maintained and operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide…

Society expects openness and transparency in climate science to have a greater understanding of the certainty regarding how climate has changed and how it will…

Policy makers rely on climate observations and model predictions that inherently contain uncertainties. Accurate characterization of these uncertainties is necessary to make well-informed decisions. Observations…

Satellite proxies for tropical rainfall (shaded) can identify changes in the global circulation (contours). These patterns help the energy sector anticipate changes in demand over…

Surface albedo is the fraction of incoming solar radiation reflected by the land surface, and therefore is a sensitive indicator of environmental changes. Its value…