The report spans the entire range of NOAA’s mission, and includes 64 stories that represent a selection of NOAA’s research and development accomplishments.
NOAA Science Report Highlights 2019 Research Accomplishments
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A Burst of Lake Effect Snow
Though snow droughts kept the ground bare in much of the Northeast, a late-February storm pummeled upstate New York.
Exploit Local-Level Opportunities for Sustainable Land Management: Lessons From a Multistakeholder Platform in Tanzania
With climate change, the issues of land are becoming more important.
Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets Over China
NO2 amounts have dropped with the coronavirus quarantine, Chinese New Year, and a related economic slowdown.
Coral Reefs In Turks And Caicos Islands Resist Global Bleaching Event
A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean from 2012 to 2018 found that 35 key coral species remained resilient during a 2014-17 global coral-bleaching event that harmed coral reefs around the world.
Winter Flooding in Mississippi and Louisiana
Persistent heavy rains in the first two months of 2020 have swelled rivers from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico.
