A forecaster monitors incoming data for Hurricane Irma in 2017 at the National Hurricane Center, part of the NOAA. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images All of that information goes into ...

Elizabeth Neus is the former managing editor of FedTech and the former producer of FedTech's award-winning Feds in the Field video series. The Washington Nationals are her team; 80s Brit pop is her ...

A big data project launched by the U.S. Commerce Department brings together major cloud analytics vendors and the Open Cloud Consortium to develop infrastructure needed to access the more than 20 ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is getting closer to a solving a dilemma facing many federal agencies: how to find the resources to move more of its untapped open data into the ...

When you think of forecasts, the first thing that comes to mind might be the weather. People have been forecasting the weather since time immortal, using everything from observing nature to oracles ...

Citizen scientists enrich NOAA's massive environmental data library, in support of researchers, educators and the public at large. The National Weather Service (NWS) was doing citizen science before ...

A former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist criticized his colleague's data archiving methods. This is a pretty normal scientific argument, the kind that happens in ...

Did National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers rush and manipulate data back in 2015 in order to publish a high-impact study in Science disproving the notion that the rate of man-made ...

On 4 February 2017, the British tabloid Mail on Sunday (and the Daily Mail's online site) published an article by David Rose — a longtime proponent of climate change conspiracy theories whose analyses ...

On Sunday, the UK tabloid Mail on Sunday alleged a seemingly juicy (if unoriginal) climate science scandal. At its core, though, it’s not much more substantial than claiming the Apollo 11 astronauts ...

The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...