UH atmospheric scientists share hurricane expertise
Faculty in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology's Department of Atmospheric Sciences were sought out for media interviews as the state awaited Hurricane Lane's arrival.
Study finds differences in El Niño events
This new understanding of El Niño and La Niña events will help researchers determine whether to expect shifts of El Niño characteristics as the global climate changes.
Grant will enhance atmospheric and wave forecasts in Pacific Island territories
Atmospheric and wave forecasts will improve public safety for the people of Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa.
SOEST volcanologists sought for expertise during Kīlauea eruption
The Kīlauea eruption has generated extensive news coverage and UH Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology experts have been sought by local, national and international media to provide background and information.
Heightened threat of destructive potential of cyclones increases with ocean warming
The study concluded that with warmer sea surface temperatures, tropical cyclones become not only stronger, with higher maximum wind speeds, but also larger, with gale-force winds covering a greater area.
The climate of Maunakea: past, present and future
Steven Businger, a UH Mānoa professor, will discuss the climate of Maunakea including historic climate observations and simulations of future weather.
Partnership aims to improve tornado forecasting
The SOEST and Jonathan Merage Foundation project aims to improve severe weather forecasting in northeastern Colorado.
Unexpected changes in high-level equatorial winds surprise scientists
A study published last week in Science presents a mechanism to explain the unexpected and unprecedented disruption of the atmospheric winds in February 2016.
La Niña is not helping Hawaiʻi’s rainfall and groundwater
New research determined that the relationship between La Niña and rainfall in Hawaiʻi has changed and recent La Niña years have brought less-than-normal rainfall.
UH researchers return with latest El Nino data from the central equatorial Pacific
UH Mānoa research team finds that small-scale ocean mixing has large impact.
