National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- proper noun
- Formal
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides critical weather forecasts to help communities prepare for natural disasters.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Examples
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Brad Udall, director of Western Water Assessment, one of several Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments programs funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says that RCMs conducted on the Colorado River Basin can reliably predict only up to 8 years or so into the future.
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Robert L. Pitman, a marine ecologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says he "just may have the best job in the world."
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has taken the model results and applied them.
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Organizations such as National Geographic and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have contributed photographs and video clips to enhance the experience.
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For the project, the scientists coordinated with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, and with non-governmental organizations that will want to make use of the data, Faulring said.
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USCG and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began flyovers to chart the movement of the oil.
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Dilling previously worked as a program manager for a national carbon-cycle science program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she studied the oceanic carbon cycle.
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In July and August, AIBS commented on draft strategic plans for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
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Students then discussed the findings and communicated their analysis, again via modem to an expert at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who wrote back and compared their findings to current scientific analyses.
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The end result of the accelerating race to fish was that both fish populations and fishing profits shrank. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is now considering a policy to encourage the implementation of more catch share systems in U.S. fisheries.
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Synonyms
A US government agency that monitors the oceans and weather and issues storm warnings
Surface Forms
Morphology
national + oceanic + and + atmospheric + administration
The overall meaning is directly built from its parts: 'national' + 'oceanic' + 'atmospheric' + 'administration' clearly indicates a national administrative body concerned with ocean and atmospheric matters. This follows common government-naming patterns across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can reasonably infer it refers to a government agency that monitors/oversees oceanic and weather-related issues.
Etymology
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a simple description: National means for the whole country, Oceanic means the oceans, Atmospheric means the air and weather, and Administration is a government group that manages things. So it is the U.S. agency that watches the seas and the sky, makes weather forecasts, and warns people about storms.