New Open-Access Book Casts Climate Change as a Public Health Crisis

Forecast map for the current year ending Sept. 30. Blue regions show higher odds. Image: Mike Dettinger/USGS CNAP

March Rains Fall Short of Miracle but Boost for Southern California, Some Help for the Sierras

An Air Force C-130 J aircraft. Credit: Erik Jepsen. Right: NOAA49 and crew studies Hurricane Dorian. Credit: NOAA.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Air Force, NOAA to Fly into Atmospheric River Storms Over Pacific Ocean this Winter

Interdisciplinary SeaSCAPE project utilizes large wave tank to look at how human pollution is affecting the ability of ocean biology to control clouds and climate

Research Highlight: Scientists Bring the Ocean into the Lab to Study Human Impacts on the Ocean and Climate

Arctic winter sea ice extent in 1980 (left) and 2012. Image: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Research Highlight: Loss of Arctic's Reflective Sea Ice Will Advance Global Warming by 25 Years

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Climate, Atmospheric Sciences, and Physical Oceanography is the largest department at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. We are an active community of 42 professors and researchers, 20 post docs, and 47 grad students. Fourteen staff members assist the researchers in submitting over 100 proposals a year to over 26 agencies and managing roughly $48 million a year in extramural funding all in the pursuit of understanding the oceans and skies.

CASPO News

	Scientists Identify Climate Change as Major Contributor to Record-Breaking Marine Heatwave Scripps Oceanography team used a century of ocean data collected by the Shore Stations Program and new method of temperature analysis to put the 2018 marine heatwave in context
	New Study Looks at How the “Blob” Came Back Scripps Oceanography and CIRES scientists find that weak winds in the Pacific drove record-breaking 2019 summertime marine heat wave