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Popular App Store developer Iconfactory has just released a new app called Waterscope Weather. However, this isn’t your typical weather app; as the developer puts it, it’s a “weather app designed for people who love being around water.” When users open the app for the first time, they will be…

by Debra Werner — November 23, 2020 The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts created this Forecast Sensitivity Observation Impact chart, which notes the relative importance of various datasets in reducing forecast errors. The light blue line shows the declining impact of airborne sensors as air travel declined during…

Oceana is urging the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to intervene to help save North Atlantic right whales from extinction. The move comes after recent research by NOAA Fisheries found that the North Atlantic right whale population had been decimated. Currently, there is only an estimated 360 individuals remaining. Sadly,…

The ocean is massive. It covers more than 70 percent of Earth's surface. The Pacific Ocean alone blankets 60 million square miles (155 million square kilometers) of the planet. This water regulates our climate and weather patterns by funneling heat from the equator to the poles, produces more than half…

The 28th named storm of an epic Atlantic hurricane season formed yesterday and is barreling toward Central America as Hurricane Eta today. That ties the record with 2005 for the most storms strong enough to earn a name in a single season. This is also the 12th hurricane to form…

Researcher Shane Elipot releases ocean drifter. Credit: Shane Elipot, Ph.D. University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researcher Shane Elipot proposes a new approach to monitoring global sea-level rise. Using the existing NOAA Global Drifter Program array of roughly 1,200 buoys that drift freely with ocean…

Rare fishes at Kure. Credit: NOAA/Richard Pyle-Bishop Museum NOAA has published a peer-reviewed State of the Monument report that was jointly produced by the co-trustees of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The report includes information on the status and trends of living resources, habitats, ocean conditions, maritime and cultural archaeological resources,…

The NOAA Marine Debris Program (MDP) and the National Parks Service Team recently announced a partnership. The goal of the partnership is to improve the outreach of the Marine Debris Program by tapping into the millions of visitors to national parks. The collaboration will see the MDP install educational and outreach…

Human-caused climate change may worsen droughts Human-caused climate change may worsen drough... 07:44 Don't expect much of a winter wallop this year, except for the pain of worsening drought, U.S. government forecasters said Thursday. Two-thirds of the United States should get a warmer than normal winter, the National Oceanic and…

Don’t expect much of a winter wallop this year, except for the pain of worsening drought, U.S. government forecasters said Thursday.Two-thirds of the United States should get a warmer than normal winter, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted. Only Washington, northern Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas and northwestern Minnesota, will…