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Environment
New NOAA dataset helps improve flood mitigation tools and flood risk assessments
On April 12, 2024, high tide flooding submerged vehicles and parking meters in Annapolis, Maryland. Storm surge flooding is the flooding of normally dry coastal land with water, which occurs during high tide. As sea levels rise, storm surge flooding becomes more frequent, increasing disruption to coastal communities. Credit: NOAA The first modeled historical water level and wave datasets for…
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Space & Cosmos
NOAA releases images of world’s first operational space-based coronagraph
Credit: NOAA Headquarters NOAA today shared the first images from Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), a powerful solar telescope aboard its new GOES-19 satellite. CCOR-1, the world’s first operational space-based coronagraph, began observing the sun’s corona, the faint outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, on September 19, 2024. CCOR-1 monitors the corona and predicts coronal mass ejections (CMEs). A CME is a…
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