Climate science
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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 know what happened before that?…
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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 management, climate change and natural…
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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 because the reduction in the…
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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 see that the current events…
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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 are getting stronger more quickly…
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The Climate Learning Network announced today that their Climate Literacy Training is now available at eXtension. If you are an extension agent, then you can take advantage of this, but even if you are not, you might also be able to participate using the contact below. See the notice below for details on how to…
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Lately there have been several stories in the news about the ocean circulation in the Atlantic slowing down, as measured by buoys in the Gulf Stream and with other sensors. But you might not know why this is important for earth’s climate. This article from InsideClimateNews.org provides a good basic description of how the oceanic…