Thursday, June 25th, 2015
The ability to explain science to a lay audience is extraordinary. It is hard, and it can be made even more difficult when talking about climate. But, as the old saw goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. So how much is a moving, interactive, and informative picture (or rather, graphic) worth? This graphic, […]
The latest Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NWS advisory is out, and it looks like we are heading towards El Niño – this time with much greater certainty!
πόλλ’ οἶδ’ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ’ ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα (“the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”) – Archilochus (via Wikipedia). George Philander gave a talk on The Hedgehog and the Fox yesterday at the Graduate Center, and provided some very interesting food for thought for both budding scientists and some of the […]
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
I just returned home from The Tropics Rule conference up at LDEO, celebrating Mark Cane’s contributions to climatology and highlighting some of the best and most recent work in various areas of tropical climatology, including modeling, dynamics and paleoclimate.
Earlier this year, it looked like an epic El Niño was brewing. The eastern tropical Pacific subsurface was showing signs of intense warming that seemed poised to erupt into a major El Niño event. Early signs were looking like this may be an historic – or maybe near-historic – event. The latest signs, however, make […]
Sunday, August 18th, 2013
In a seminal paper last year [ok, some sarcasm there], Yi et. al argued (at the end) that extreme events can cause grassland ecosystems to absorb less carbon. I know – that was my hypothesis and contribution to the paper, which was borne from a class project and furthered by an AGU poster. In the […]
The cold and wet weather in Europe is now having an effect on UK food production, according to an article in yesterday’s Guardian. Wheat yields are down 30%, crops are coming in later and food prices are rising. This is in addition to the catastrophic flooding in Europe, which is the worst in Bavaria in […]