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Oct. 8 (UPI) --As extreme weather events continue to devastate locales around the world, the United States hopes a more-than $15 million investment in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

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Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this article. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical Fluid ...