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  1. El Niño’s high-altitude highway: Map showing temperature anomalies during El Niño and La Niña years with sudden stratospheric warmings, 1958-2013

    El Niño’s high-altitude highway

    El Niño exerts its global impact through two different atmospheric pathways, one located miles above the other—a finding that may help bolster regional climate prediction.

    • Climate

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  2. Photo of NCAR scientist Marika Holland explaining changes in Arctic sea ice extent

    Four decades of geoscience

    Geophysical Research Letters, a leading journal in Earth science, is toasting its 40th anniversary this month with an editor-picked retrospective collection of 40 papers, including several with authors from NCAR.

    • Climate,
    • Air Quality

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  3. Hazy skies in Los Angeles as viewed from the Getty Center, 3/18/08

    Climate change threatens to worsen U.S. ozone pollution

    Americans face the risk of a 70 percent increase in unhealthy summertime ozone events by 2050 because of factors related to climate change.

    • Climate,
    • Air Quality

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  4. Water: too much, too little - Image shows effects of major drought on plants across U.S. on June 24, 2011

    Water: too much, too little

    Climate change will reduce water availability during dry seasons and increase it during wet seasons around the globe, new research suggests. It also finds there will be large regional variations in water-related impacts.

    • Climate

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  5. NASA image of Earth from Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), 5/26/12

    Local experts available for climate discussions across country

    UCAR and the U.N. Foundation have assembled a network of experts who can discuss climate change in communities across the country.

    • Climate

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