The U.S. east coast has already seen shifts in the distribution of major fisheries, influencing catch limits and ...

The Gulf Stream plays a key role in shaping weather and climate patterns in regions surrounding the North Atlantic. A new NOAA study reveals the Gulf Stream underwent a rapid intensification from 2014 ...

The Physical Oceanography Division is comprised of scientists, engineers, and technical support staff that aid NOAA’s mission by observing and studying ocean and climate dynamics, the physical drivers ...

To provide quarterly reports on the state of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) for near-surface currents. Surface currents carry massive amounts of heat from the tropics to subpolar latitudes, ...

For many of the flights, there is an accompanying text file version of the mission drosponde log sheet, which contains a 132-character ASCII table; the nomenclature is "flight_ID".txt. The table is ...

HRD field program mission catalog, surface wind analysis archive, synoptic surveillance assessments, Atlantic hurricane re-analysis project, basin-wide info., and explanation of data formats.

Altius-600 uncrewed aircraft system being released from the NOAA WP-3D Orion Hurricane Hunter aircraft during a test flight in June 2022. Watch the video here. NOAA hurricane researchers have added a ...

Below are the wind center fixes and the track made from them for Frederic. The fixes were determined during post-processing using methods developed by Dr. Hugh Willoughby and represent the center of ...

HRD field program mission catalog, surface wind analysis archive, synoptic surveillance assessments, Atlantic hurricane re-analysis project, basin-wide info., and explanation of data formats.

Below are the wind center fixes and the track made from them for Gilbert. The fixes were determined during post-processing using methods developed by Dr. Hugh Willoughby and represent the center of ...

This post was originally published at Climate.Gov’s ENSO blog. Dr. Sang-Ki Lee, is a physical oceanographer at AOML. His research focuses on the interactions between the atmosphere and ocean, and how ...