Climate & Environment
- Ozone levels higher across China than in other countries tracking the air pollutant, new NOAA/CIRES research shows.
- A new NOAA and NASA campaign investigates how the temperature of western U.S. wildfires affects the composition of their smoke.
- Flooding caused by rain falling on snowpack could more than double by the end of this century in some areas of the western U.S. and Canada due to climate change.
- Researchers have found a link between gravity waves in the upper and lower Antarctic atmosphere, helping create a clearer picture of global air circulation.
- As plant communities become more diverse and complex in the high alpine, so, too, do soil microorganisms, according to new research at CU Boulder.
- Researchers say that scant supplies of oxygen may have existed in Earth's ancient atmosphere.
- A CIRES and NOAA team has developed unmanned aircraft systems to collect weather data in the Arctic.
- Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica鈥檚 ice sheet reach temperatures of nearly minus 100 degrees Celsius, according to new research from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
- A collaborative research team including CU Boulder scientists is outfitting a house with scientific instruments to demystify indoor air chemistry.
- Wildfires can pollute streams and watersheds through the mobilization of sediments and other matter, straining the capabilities of downstream municipal treatment facilities.