Climate science
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The latest US Forest Service monthly newsletter was released this week. It contains links to a number of interesting stories, including a video on how fire benefits forests and how climate change will impact forest hydrology. You can view the newsletter here.
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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and one that has been linked to farming in several ways. Ruminants produce methane as part of the digestive process, rice paddies release methane through fermentation, and clearing land by burning forests or draining wetlands can all produce methane. But the amount of methane being released into the atmosphere…
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I was going through mail today and found this interesting commentary on interpreting climate records in Physics Today. The article discusses how different writers can take the same climate information (in this case, the very warm March 2012 temperature record from Durham NC) and write very different headlines based on how they interpret the data. All…
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Do you love weather and climate? Do you want to more about it? If so, you won’t want to miss this CoCoRaHS week’s webinar on the COMET program. It’s being held Thursday October 20 at 1 pm EDT. According to the blurb, “The award-winning COMET Program has produced over 800 hours of online lessons in…
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Yale Climate Connections has a new 6-minute video on the importance of sea ice to global climate. If you would like to know more about the connections between Arctic conditions and what is happening here in the Southeast and in other parts of the globe, check it out at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/10/sea-ice-video-addresses-key-questions/.
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You may have heard television meteorologists talk about the diurnal cycle in temperature in the past, and I thought I would spend a few minutes to discuss it and how the current drought is affecting the diurnal cycle in some parts of the Southeast. I am using an example from Rome GA, which is in…
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Here’s a cool video on YouTube from NASA.gov which shows the progression of rainfall along the path of Hurricane Matthew. This animation shows the amount of rainfall dropped by Hurricane Matthew over the life and track of the storm/ IMERG real time data covering the period from Sept. 28 through Oct. 10, 2016 show rainfall from…