Climate science
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Tonight we will officially begin astronomical fall (remember that climatological fall started on September 1). EarthSky.org has some information about the equinox here.
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Climate.gov has a new article posted describing how September’s climate is changing across the US. You probably would not be surprised to know that it is not changing the same everywhere across the country. But you might be surprised to know that in most of the Southeast except for Florida, it’s gotten cooler over the…
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This week as Hurricane Florence bore down on the coast of North Carolina and then drifted south, multitudes of people were forced to evacuate from their homes, many near the coast and others in flood-prone inland areas. A large number of them ended up in Georgia, since it was expected to be spared the worse…
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EarthSky has an informative article which describes the process that meteorologists go through when they are forecasting hurricanes. They use a variety of models that use different schemes to handle various aspects of the weather and which give a variety of paths. On a display these are often referred to as “spaghetti models”. The expert…
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With Hurricane Florence gaining strength in the Atlantic and headed towards the US East Coast, today’s GCP Roadmap question is a very compelling one. How are we currently planning for extreme weather and what could we do better? Our emergency managers across the state have already spent a lot of time thinking about this, but…
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The Royal Meteorological Society has produced a short video on how deforestation in the Amazon River basin affects the water cycle there that you might find interesting. It’s less than 3 minutes long. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBe4LTLOLvU.
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I was interested to read this Physics Today article about how plants that are being affected by drought can actually change the composition of the atmosphere around them. When they are feeling the effects of drought, the plants close their stomata to decrease water loss. This reduces the amount of carbon dioxide that is used.…