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.
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Here is the current SST map: From NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center: EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION issued by CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS 10 September 2009 ENSO Alert System Status: El Niño Advisory Synopsis: El Niño is expected to strengthen and last through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2009-2010. A weak El Niño continued during...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
by Joseph Romm NOAA’s National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center released its monthly El Niño/Southern oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion : A weak El Niño continued during August 2009, as sea surface temperature (SST) remained above-average across the equatorial Pacific Ocean (Fig. 1). Consistent with this warmth, the latest weekly values of the Niño-region...
New Scientist (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Blue lasers could allow submarines to break their silence while submerged
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
‘Dark Energy’ reminds us: consensus has no place in real science - Telegraph Blogs In short, science is not, never has been and never should or can be about “consensus”. There is no consensus on dark matter. Anyone who claims that there is one on climate change or Anthropogenic Global Warming is living on another planet. BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Methane seeps from...
Climate Change (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
The climate science community tells us that the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is merely a redistribution of heat. Sea level data tells us otherwise. The graph below shows detrended sea level data from the University of Colorado, which is available for the period 1993-2008. If ENSO is non-radiative, it should not influence sea level, which is [...]
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
by Joseph Romm Fast on the heels of the second hottest June on record , NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies reports that July is also the second hottest on record. NASA just quietly updates its data set ( here ). NASS GISS is much more low-key than NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, which issues a major report on the climate every month (see NCDC: Second hottest June on record...
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