Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Marco Tedesco Says Record Low Resulted From Simultaneous Positive Phases for Two Climate DriversThe 30-year record low in Antarctic snowmelt that occurred during the 2008-09 austral summer was likely due to concurrent strong positive phases for two main climate drivers, ENSO (El Niño - Southern Oscillation) and SAM (Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode), according to Dr.
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Monthly cumulative rainfall residuals for Naracoorte, Australia with IPO [40]. (IPO: interdecadal pacific oscillation). Abstract: In Australia, a persistent drought extending over a 5- to 10-years duration has produced severe water restrictions for over 90 percent of water users in the nation. The effects of the 1996-2007 drought relative to other droughts and the implications of the drought in terms...
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
We seem to have settled into a moderate to strong El Niño. NOAA’s latest weekly update on the El Niño/Southern oscillation, “ENSO Cycle: Recent Evolution, Current Status and Predictions“ shows that the key region of the Pacific Ocean has stayed quite warm for all of November (see here for figures and data). The question is how [...]
Climate Observations (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
When the CRU Email Search Engine... http://www.eastangliaemails.com/search.php ...was introduced last week, I searched for “watts”, since I’m a regular contributor of guest posts at WUWT, to see if any of them had received an honorable mention. Alas! One had. It was “ A look at the Thompson et al paper – hi tech wiggle matching and removal of natural variables . The version...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Research published this week in PLoS Medicine demonstrates associations between local rainfall and temperature and cases of dengue fever, which affects an estimated fifty million people per year worldwide. But the study finds little evidence that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation - the climate cycle that occurs every three to four years as a result of the warming of the oceans in the eastern...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Climate models that predict heavy rainfall don't give the whole picture, according to the results of a new study. Researchers examined climate changes that have taken place over the past 800,000 years, and discovered that the melting icebergs in the North Atlantic and changes in the El Niño Southern Oscillation have a great influence on the intensity of monsoon rains.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
( European Space Agency ) As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the half-shells of the Rockot fairing.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
( National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) ) The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece.
Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Figure 1. Standardized values of the Antarctic snow melt index (October-January) from 1980-2009 (adapted from Tedesco and Monaghan, 2009) "Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention? The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history . Such was the finding reported last week...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate models that predict heavy rainfall don`t give the whole picture, according to the results of a study by NWO scientist Martin Ziegler. He examined climate changes that have taken place over the past 800,000 years, and discovered that the melting icebergs in the North Atlantic and changes in the El Niño Southern Oscillation have a great influence on the intensity of monsoon...
Skeptic's Corner (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
FROM- World Climate Report Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention? The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history. Such was the finding reported last week by Marco Tedesco and Andrew Monaghan in the journal Geophysical...
Climate Change (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO) seems to be perceived as a change in the state of the tropical oceans, the focus being on the ENSO 3.4 region in the Pacific. It is thought that change in the Pacific feeds into temperature change elsewhere. The word ‘teleconnections’, is a mantra of climate science. [...]
Climate Observations (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
INTRODUCTION In “Identifying signatures of natural climate variability in time series of global-mean surface temperature: Methodology and Insights”, Thompson et al (2009) remove the effects of three natural variables from the Global Surface Temperature record (January 1900 to March 2009). Those three natural variables are El Nino-Southern Oscillation, stratospheric aerosols emitted by explosive...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific due to global warming, according to an article in the September 24 issue of the journal Nature."There are two El Niños, or flavors of El Niño," said Ben Kirtman, co-author of the...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
( NOAA Headquarters ) The NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel will meet September 23-24 in Duluth, Minn., to discuss operations, research and development, hydrographic surveying, nautical charting, and geodetic and geospatial measurements. The panel is a Federal Advisory Committee that advises the NOAA Administrator on carrying out NOAA's Navigation Services mission.
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