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NOAA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather
Synonyms:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("NOAA" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Meronyms (parts of "NOAA"):
National Climatic Data Center; NCDC (the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data)
National Weather Service (the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps)
Holonyms ("NOAA" is a part of...):
Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)
Context examples:
Scientists have found this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is, at 6,474 square miles, above average in size and larger than forecast by NOAA in June.
(2015 Gulf of Mexico dead zone ‘above average’, NOAA)
Co-author of the study and senior scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Michael McPhaden, tells SciDev.Net: “The MJO contributes to flooding, dry spells, heat waves, severe tropical storms and other extreme weather events in the far reaches of the globe.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
Scientists with NOAA and the University of Miami identified how patterns in the spring phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), coupled with variability in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures, could help predict U.S. regional tornado outbreaks.
(Ocean temperatures may hold key to predicting tornado outbreaks, NOAA)
The calving of the massive new iceberg was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and confirmed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument on the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite.
(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)
However, unlike the past two years, Earth’s average temperature in 2017 was not influenced by the warming effect of an El Nino, say scientists from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)
It was developed by NOAA to help policymakers, educators and the public more clearly grasp how quickly this warming influence is increasing.
(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)
GOES-R, the first of NOAA’s highly advanced geostationary weather satellites, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:42 p.m. on November 19.
(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)
The atlas takes advantage of low-light imaging now available from the NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, calibrated by thousands of ground observations.
(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)
We found that, all other things being equal, the conversion of forests to crops and pastures leads to a two-to-four fold increase in the occurrence of hot, dry summers in these altered regions, said lead author Kirsten L. Findell, a climate scientist at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL).
(Forests minimize severe heat waves, NOAA)
The increasing load of carbon dioxide in the ocean interior is already having an impact on the shellfish industry, particularly along the U.S. West Coast, said Richard Feely of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, leader of NOAA’s West Coast acidification observing network and a co-author of the study.
(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)
