On National Intern Day, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) is celebrating our 2024 summer internship class! From high school students to post doctoral fellows, these exceptional individuals are joining us from schools across the country, from Hawaii to Florida. They are researching corals, microbes, hurricanes, air-sea interaction, ocean acidification, communications strategies, and much […]
New study led by scientists at CIMAS, AOML and NMFS reveals impacts of suspended sediment from Port Miami on early life stages of a threatened Caribbean coral species.
In early July, the Caribbean experienced 165 mph winds as Category 5 Hurricane Beryl swept through the region. Beryl was unprecedented, becoming the Atlantic’s earliest forming Category 5 tropical cyclone on record. The storm developed and rapidly intensified to maximum wind speed in less than four days – a behavior uncommon this early in the season. Despite the unprecedented intensification, hurricane scientists with NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory were prepared.
Tornadoes are among the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in the United States and are one of the hardest to predict. In December 2021, the most destructive winter tornado outbreak, known as the Quad-State Tornado Outbreak, caused 89 fatalities, 672 injuries, and at least $3.9 billion in property damages. Scientists at the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) investigated this outbreak and found that it occurred under an exceptionally strong and prolonged negative Pacific-North American (PNA) pattern, which created favorable conditions for tornado outbreaks.
Tropical Cyclone Freddy breaks records as the longest-lasting cyclone on record. Spanning 36 days, it traveled from the Australia to Africa, nearly 33% of the Earth’s circumference.
A new study spanning two decades of research may indicate a series of reefs from the surface to 150 meters deep in the Gulf of Mexico are more resilient to warmer oceans as they are exposed to a wider range of temperatures brought on by a physical movement of seawater called “eddies.”
In May 2024, representatives from the Hurricane Modeling Team at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) hosted a Summer Colloquium focused on equipping the next generation of hurricane scientists with a knowledge base of the HAFS model.
Con una activa temporada de huracanes en el horizonte, la necesidad de una previsión fiable de huracanes está en el primer plano de nuestras mentes. Se espera que el aumento de la temperatura de la superficie del mar, el debilitamiento de la cizalladura vertical del viento y el aumento del monzón de África Occidental contribuyan al desarrollo de ciclones tropicales en el Atlántico. Para predecir estas tormentas en desarrollo, los meteorólogos emplean modelos que se basan en observaciones actuales y cálculos matemáticos para predecir el comportamiento y la trayectoria de una tormenta. Estos modelos son complejos y utilizan datos procedentes de diversas fuentes, como datos históricos, numéricos, oceánicos y atmosféricos, para generar sus predicciones.
Las luces azules llenan la sala. El tenue olor a sal emana por todo el espacio mientras cables y tubos suspendidos de forma intrincada sobre brazos robóticos se mueven por raíles hechos a medida sobre cuatro filas de tanques llenos de agua de mar y fragmentos de corales en peligro crítico. En el Laboratorio Experimental de Arrecifes, científicos del Laboratorio Oceanográfico y Meteorológico del Atlántico (AOML) de la NOAA y del Instituto Cooperativo de Estudios Marinos y Atmosféricos (CIMAS) investigan cómo afectan los efectos del cambio climático a las especies de coral que son fundamentales para la formación de arrecifes, utilizando un conjunto de brazos robóticos de código abierto diseñados y construidos en el AOML.
Hielo flotante, temperaturas bajo cero y rayas de luces en el cielo nocturno. El crucero I08S GO-SHIP concluyó con éxito el 1 de abril.
