Climate science
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In this blog I talk a lot about El Niño because it has the most significant impact of any climate cycle on the climate of the Southeast. You might be interested in the history of how El Niño was discovered and why it has the name it has. I read a great article by Julia Busiek in…
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Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has a good discussion of how we take information from global climate models and make it more useful by feeding the information into regional climate models. While his blog post is focused on the Pacific Northwest, the same principles apply to other regions, including the Southeast. There are…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina has a new blog post on the biggest hurricanes to hit their state. You can find it at https://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=153&h=5666e5c1.
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How do we know what the climate was like centuries ago? Climatologists use “proxy data” to determine the past climates. Records like tree rings show changes from year to year in growth patterns that are related to the climate in which the rings form, and the scientists can combine this with other information to see…
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NASA has an excellent 1-minute video on how rising temperatures are linked to rises in sea level. You can view it at the link here.
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Now that it is September, people are starting to think about fall. I frequently get asked when the peak color is going to occur. Of course, conditions vary from year to year depending on the climate conditions each year, but there are a few sites that have really useful information to address this question. The…
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A new study published in Nature magazine shows that dry climates across the world have increased. They note that “About 5.7% of the global total land area has shifted toward warmer and drier climate types from 1950–2010, and significant changes include expansion of arid and high-latitude continental climate zones, shrinkage in polar and midlatitude continental…