Latest US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Stories

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The European Union (EU) Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, met with NOAA Administrator, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, on January 18 in the context of her official visit to the United States. Following their meeting they issued this joint statement: "Addressing global challenges needs international collaboration, and this is certainly a key moment to reinforce EU/US science cooperation. Our...

  The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation (NSF) closed its inquiry into Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania researcher who’s been a target of climate-change skeptics. Mann was cleared of wrongdoing by investigators for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the flap surrounding e-mails hacked from a UK university. Pennsylvania State University, where Mann is a professor of meteorology, exonerated him in February of suppressing or falsifying data,...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) have agreed to formally explore strengthening their cooperation in areas of common interest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A letter of intent signed today by Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator, and Dominique Ristori, JRC Director-General, expresses the organisations' interest to further explore and propose cooperative activities in the following...

North America, Europe and eastern Asia could see more cold, moist and snowy winters much like the one that just passed, according to one top scientist. James Overland of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told the AFP news agency, "Cold and snowy winters will be the rule rather than the exception." It may seem counter-intuitive, but warmer Arctic climates caused by climate change influence air pressure at the North Pole, which shifts wind patterns in such a way...

Scientists are hoping a new set of buoys in the Indian Ocean will provide farmers with information that can better predict monsoons in some of the world's most underdeveloped regions.Michael McPhaden of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the international project consists of buoys that will gauge wind, rainfall and temperature in the Indian Ocean, where data collection has been sparse in comparison to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.Researchers began the...

Virgin Galactic will join up with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to look at carrying scientific instruments on board one of its space tourism vehicles to gather data on climate change.The first instrument would provide data on atmospheric composition - particularly greenhouse gases.So far, 280 customers have already reserved seats for sub-orbital space flights aboard the vehicles, the company said.Virgin aims to be the world's first "spaceline", taking...