The Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), a program office within NOAA’s National Satellite and Information Service (NESDIS), develops satellite-based products and tools to support ...

New research from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds tropical cyclones cause ocean turbulence that extends deeper than previously thought, causing mixing that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of July 31, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center will stop sharing satellite weather data with NOAA.

Tropical cyclones—also known as hurricanes, typhoons or storms, depending on their location and intensity—are among the world's most destructive and costly climate disasters. Their direct physical ...

Sea turtles, such as olive ridleys and loggerheads, spend most of their time just below the ocean’s surface—the perfect place to collect data for tropical cyclone forecasting. Photo by EyeEm/Alamy ...

Tropical cyclones pose a great risk to human life and cause massive disruptions to hydrocarbon production in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The National Hurricane Center (NHC) produces forecasts for the ...

Global warming is making the atmosphere more hostile to the formation of tropical cyclones. By the early 2010s there were about 13 percent fewer storms across all oceans than there were in the late ...

Tropical cyclones are synonymous with destruction. But at least one seabird may take advantage of them as feeding opportunities. The Desertas petrel, a small and threatened seabird native to the North ...

As of July 31, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center will stop sharing satellite weather data with NOAA. Here, satellite imagery shows Hurricane Florence approaching the U.S.