National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Climate modeling institute renewed for five more years
Sept. 14, 2024

The Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES) was successfully renewed for another five years under award NA23OAR4320198 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). CIMES is an outgrowth of a highly successful fifty-year collaboration between Princeton University…

Princeton research activity hits new milestone
April 12, 2023
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Written by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research

Princeton University marked the highest level of research activity in its history as measured by spending on research in areas ranging from cancer to climate change to pioneering quantum sciences. The University conducted research activities with associated expenditures of more than $404.4 million in fiscal year 2021, according to the most…

Switching to hydrogen fuel could prolong the methane problem
March 20, 2023
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Written by Colton Poore, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Hydrogen’s potential as a clean fuel could be limited by a chemical reaction in the lower atmosphere, according to research from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

This is because hydrogen gas easily reacts in the atmosphere with the same molecule primarily responsible for breaking down methane, a…

The Pacific Ocean’s oxygen-starved 'OMZ' is growing, Princeton research finds
Jan. 6, 2023
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Written by Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications

Areas of low-oxygen water stretch for thousands of miles through the world’s oceans. The largest of these “oxygen minimum zones” (OMZs) is found along the Pacific coast of North and South America, centered off the coast of Mexico.

Until recently, climate models have been unable to say whether OMZs will grow or shrink from climate…