NOAA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NOAA mean? 

• NOAA (noun)
  The noun NOAA has 1 sense:

1. an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather

  Familiarity information: NOAA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOAA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA

Hypernyms ("NOAA" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Meronyms (parts of "NOAA"):

National Climatic Data Center; NCDC (the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data)

National Weather Service (the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps)

Holonyms ("NOAA" is a part of...):

Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)

 Context examples 

Researchers from NOAA, Oregon State University, and the U.S. Coast Guard were surprised by how much they heard.

(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)

Earth’s globally averaged temperature for 2017 made it the third warmest year in NOAA’s 138-year climate record, behind 2016 (warmest) and 2015 (second warmest).

(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)

NOAA’s ground- and balloon-based measurements also found the least amount of ozone depletion since 1988.

(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)

Using high-resolution satellite data and precision sky brightness measurements, NOAA’s study produced the most accurate assessment yet of the global impact of light pollution.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

Human activity has increased the direct warming effect of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 50 percent above pre-industrial levels during the past 25 years, according to NOAA's 10th Annual Greenhouse Gas Index.

(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)

The new research published by NOAA and international partners finds as carbon dioxide emissions have increased in the atmosphere, the ocean has absorbed a greater volume of emissions.

(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)

The satellite will boost the nation’s weather observation network and NOAA’s prediction capabilities, leading to more accurate and timely forecasts, watches and warnings.

(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)

Extensive, mature forest cover can mitigate the impact of severe heat waves, droughts and other weather extremes over large regions, according to new NOAA research.

(Forests minimize severe heat waves, NOAA)

The annual growth rate of atmospheric CO2 measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii jumped 3.05 ppm during 2015, the largest year-to-year increase in 56 years of monitoring.

(South Pole is last place on Earth to pass global warming milestone, NOAA)

October 2016 was 1.31 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 57.1 degrees F, tying with 2003 as the third warmest for the month and 0.47 degrees F cooler than last year, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

(Last month tied as 3rd warmest October on record for the globe, NOAA)