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A Sea of Icy Variability
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Published February 24, 2022
Despite an overall trend of Arctic ice loss, the Bering Sea saw an expansion of sea ice due to a short-lived atmospheric-pressure pattern.
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Arctic Thaw
Published January 3, 2014
The climate of Earth is changing; fewer days of snow cover is yet another indicator.
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Snow Cover Extent Declines in the Arctic
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Published January 8, 2013
High-latitude springtime snow cover declined substantially between 1967 and 2012.
Drought in Africa
Published October 31, 2009
Severe drought choked East Africa, particularly Kenya, though much of 2009. This image shows the cumulative effect of the drought on vegetation just as the drought-breaking rains began to fall in October.
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El Niño, La Niña, and Rainfall
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Published October 24, 2009
For many people, El Niño and La Niña mean floods or drought, but the events are actually a warming or cooling of the eastern Pacific Ocean that impacts rainfall. These sea surface temperature and rainfall anomaly images show the direct correlation between ocean temperatures and rainfall during El Niño and La Niña events.
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Published July 15, 2009
The crops and grasslands that sustain people in the Sahel and East Africa languished in the wake of poor rainfall during the 2009 rainy season.
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