The Obama administration's budget request includes funding for an initiative to vastly boost the number of water-monitoring sites used to forecast floods, droughts, and other hydrological impacts.
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NOAA Predicts Strong El Niño
This winter could bring warmer temperatures to northern states and much-needed rain and snow to southern California and the Southwest.
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A Weather Eye on Coastal Winds
New satellite radar image-processing system provides wind speed maps with an unprecedented degree of precision. Such maps will help coastal communities prepare for wind-related hazards.
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Forecasting and Communicating Risk of Rip Currents, Wave Runup
NOAA Coastal Hazards Resilience Workshop—Rip Currents and Wave Runup; Suffolk, Virginia, 14–16 April 2015
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NOAA Would Receive a 9.8% Increase in Funding in Proposed Budget
The Obama administration’s budget request for NOAA would provide a substantial increase in many areas and would support key agency priorities.
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Rapid Coordination Extends Space-Based Sun-Climate Record
Faced with the prospect of a large data gap in solar irradiance records, scientists take steps to ensure that this key climate variable stays monitored.
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NOAA's Winter Outlook Favors Weak El Niño, Lower-Than-Average Precipitation
The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Association announces the upcoming weather projection for winter 2014-2015.
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NOAA Research Vessel Explores Atlantic Ocean Seamounts
NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer and two remotely operated vehicles help scientists investigate creatures, habitat, and geology on and near New England seamounts.
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NOAA Lists 20 Coral Species as Threatened
Twenty coral species have been listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on 27 August.
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Next-Generation Severe Weather Forecasting and Communication
A new concept called Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) aims to enhance weather forecasting with high-resolution probabilistic hazard information.