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NOAA released a new climatology of hurricanes today, just in time for the start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. This climatology looked at satellite images of hurricanes and tropical storms and used optical recognition to categorize the storms by the presence and size of eyes. They compared…
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One year ago today a group of experts from around the State of Georgia met together to identify a list of 40 key questions on how climate trends are impacting and/or will impact Georgia in the future. Today the Georgia Climate Project released their Climate Research Roadmap listing these questions…
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The latest issue of NOAA’s “Beyond the Data” blog has an interesting story about the history of the cooperative observer network, the backbone of long-term climate observations across the US. Did you ever wonder how the US has a climate record going back at least 125 years? How do we…
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NASA Earth has an interesting article showing the movement of fresh water around the world as tracked from their satellite GRACE. Over that 15-year time period, they observed that “Earth’s wet areas are getting wetter and dry areas are getting drier due to a variety of factors, including human water…
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NOAA reported this week that they have detected an increase in the production of chemicals that were banned due to their impact on high-altitude ozone. This indicates that someone has begun producing it again. The study narrows it down to somewhere most likely in eastern Asia. This is bad news…
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If you are ever asked about how climate is changing in the Southeast (and it is, although it is more subtle than some other parts of the US), then here is an excellent web site which provides links to several different resources. You can visit it at https://www.globalchange.gov/explore/southeast-caribbean. I do…
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A recent article in Geophysical Research Letters indicates that the most powerful hurricanes are strengthening more quickly than they used to, according to a newsletter from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. While hurricanes as a whole are not rapidly intensifying more often than in the past, the most powerful storms…
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