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August 13, 2024
Super-Marine Heatwaves: A New Term for a Growing Concern
2023 was a record-breaking year. According to the Annual 2023 Global Climate Report, 2023 was the warmest year since global atmospheric temperature records began in 1850, at 1.18°C (2.12°F) above the 20th-century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F). Now, a new analysis led by NCEI scientists published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) shows that global mean sea surface temperatures also set a record high in 2023. The paper further indicates that these record-breaking temperatures were associated with extremely strong marine heatwaves that the authors dubbed super-marine heatwaves. Decades of Data Sea surface temperature (SST) is the temperature of the uppermost layer of seawater, which typically means the top few meters. SST data are collected by satellite observations or by in situ observations from ships, drifting buoys, moored buoys, and more recently, Surface Autonomous Vehicles such as Saildrones. Monitoring changes in SST is essential for understanding and mitigating the impacts of climate change and other environmental stressors. NCEI’s Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) is a global daily SST product with a resolution of 0.25° × 0.25° that includes data from September 1981 onwards and blends satellite SSTs with in situ SSTs from ships, buoys, and Argo floats. The SST analysis based
August 12, 2024
Assessing the Global Climate in July 2024
The global land and ocean temperature departure from average for July 2024 was the highest on record.
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August 16, 2024
NOAA Supports Wildfire Science and Response
Smokey Bear celebrates 80 years of being the face of wildfire prevention.
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August 16, 2024
La NOAA Apoya la Ciencia y la Respuesta ante Incendios Forestales
Smokey Bear celebrates 80 years of being the face of wildfire prevention.
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