The National Climate Data Center (NCDC), part of NOAA, published a paper in Science magazine that attempted to explain away the existence of the temperature “pause.” Not many people really ...

On a press call Friday, Russell Vose, chief of the Product Development Branch at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, suggested the recent El Nino that ended in May was also a likely ...

The period from 2001 to 2012 was warmer than any previous decade in every region. (Figure source: NOAA NCDC / CICS-NC). The assessment uses the record hot and dry summer of 2011 in Texas and ...

Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC: “The GrDD is designed to address the following general issues inherent in the TCDD: 1. For the TCDD, each divisional value from 1931-present is simply ...

(Image credit: Courtesy of Steve Doty, NOAA NCDC (ret.)) Weather signal flags grew out of the use of the maritime signal flag, which was red, with a black square inside. Starting in 1871 ...

One of the most effective is to stop measuring it. That’s what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just did. Quietly, without much public fanfare, the agency announced ...