Background on the discovery of the ozone hole and subsequent scientific studies from the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Lab (CMDL).

NAML, organized in the late 1980's, is a nonprofit organization of over 120 members employing more than 10,000 scientists, engineers, and professionals and representing marine and Great Lakes laboratories stretching from Guam to Bermuda and Alaska to Puerto Rico. NAML member laboratories provide a variety of academic, research, and public service programs. They are unique "windows on the sea," providing information on the rich environmental mosaic of coastal habitats where land meets sea. Their 'sense of place' encourages wise local land management and protection of our precious natural resources.

Operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). UCAR, NCAR, and UOP are part of a collaborative community dedicated to understanding the atmospherethe air around usand the interconnected processes that make up the Earth system, from the ocean floor to the Sun's core. The National Center for Atmospheric Research and the UCAR Office of Programs provide research, facilities, and services for the atmospheric and Earth sciences community. NCAR and UOP are managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.Some of our key research areas include prediction and forecasting, out changing climate, pollution and air chemistry, the whole earth system, severe storms, impacts on society, the sun and space weather, weather observing, chemistry, solar observing, and technology transfer.

TheConvention on Climate Change sets an overall framework for intergovernmental efforts to tackle the challenge posed by climate change. It recognizes that the climate system is a shared resource whose stability can be affected by industrial and other emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

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Head of the Laboratory: Dr. Viacheslav K.Gusiakov. Find the online Pacific Tsunami Catalog, 47 B.C. to present; online Atlantic Tsunami Catalog, 60 B.C. to present; online Mediterranean Tsunami Catalog 1628 B.C. to present; and others.

Without interruption since 1956, Americans have been studying the Antarctic and its interactions with the rest of the planet. These investigators and supporting personnel make up the U.S. Antarctic Program, which carries forward the Nation's goals of supporting the Antarctic Treaty, fostering cooperative research with other nations, protecting the Antarctic environment, and developing measures to ensure only equitable and wise use of resources. The program comprises research by scientists selected from universities and other research institutions and operations and support by a contractor and other agencies of the U.S. Government. The National Science Foundation (the U.S. Government agency that promotes the progress of science) funds and manages the program. Approximately, 3,000 Americans are involved each year. The research has three goals: to understand the region and its ecosystems; to understand its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and to use the region as a platform to study the upper atmosphere and space. Antarctica's remoteness and extreme climate make field science more expensive than in most places. Research is done in the Antarctic only when it cannot be performed at more convenient locations

UTLS OZONE is an eight-year UK NERC funded thematic programme, which started in 1998, to study ozone in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. The Programme aims to make authoritative statements on chemical, dynamical and radiative processes controlling the distribution of ozone in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere at middle latitudes. Studies related to pollution (from surface sources and from aircraft) and to chemistry/climate interactions will be in scope.

Integrating federal research on global change and climate change.

A program designed to reduce the impact of tsunamis through warning guidance, hazard assessment, and mitigation. A division of the US Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The US NOAA National Weather Service Tropical Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center. Get storm information, tropical analysis and forecasting, and learn about hurricanes and hurricane history.

WeatherMatrix is a worldwide organization of over 9000 amateur and professional weather enthusiasts -- meteorologists, storm chasers and spotters, and weather observers from all parts of the globe. We are the largest online weather community.

Weather Underground was originally launced in 1993 as the first online weather service. Weather Underground releases daily forecasts and reports on hourly weather conditions across the United States and the globe.

The West Coast & Polar Regions Undersea Research Center supports highly-rated, peer-reviewed proposals to conduct in situ research in the region offshore California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and the Arctic and Antarctic. NURP Centers specialize in placing U.S. scientists under the sea directly using scuba, manned submersibles, and underwater labs, or remotely using robots and seafloor observatories, to conduct ocean research important to NOAA. The program is a national leader in investigations of coral reefs and beds, deep water reefs, submarine canyons, seamounts, ancient submerged shorelines, water mass boundaries, polar environments and development of advanced undersea technologies.

The Ocean and Climate Change Institute: identifies the climatic effects of changing ocean circulation, develops an ocean-monitoring network to forecast climate changes, examines past records to expand understanding of ocean behavior, studies ocean dynamics that may trigger large, abrupt climate shifts, and evaluates the oceans response to the buildup of greenhouse gases.

The World Meteorological Organization is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 187 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873. Established in 1950, WMO became the specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology (weather and climate), operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences.Since its establishment, WMO has played a unique and powerful role in contributing to the welfare of humanity. Under WMO leadership and within the framework of WMO programmes, National Meteorological and Hydrological Services have contributed substantially to the protection of life and property against natural disasters, to safeguarding the environment and to enhancing the economic and social well-being of all sectors of society in areas such as food security, water resources and transport. It has a unique role within the UN system it facilitates the free and unrestricted exchange of data and information, products and services in real- or near-real time on matters relating to safety and security of society, economic well being and the prevention of the environment. As weather and climate know no national boundaries, international cooperation at a global scale is essential for the development of meteorology and operational hydrology as well as to reap the benefits from their applications. WMO provides the framework for such international cooperation.