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SciSnack is now broadening its scope to include archaeology and in October we kickstarted...
News

Introducing ArchaeoSnack

Author Vana Orfanou Date November 12, 2020
Vana Orfanou
Tagged archaeological science, archaeology | Leave a comment |
Between the warm tropics and the cold polar regions exists a broad belt of...
Air, Climate, Sea, Weather

How do heat and moisture from the ocean influence our weather in midlatitudes?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 19, 2020
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged baroclinicity, cold sector, heat and moisture from ocean, horisontal temperature gradients, midlatitude cyclones, North Atlantic storm track, storm development, surface fluxes | Leave a comment |
Midlatitude weather is highly dominated by cyclones that typically form over the ocean and...
Air, Climate, Weather

How can evaporation of rain calm down the weather?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date August 26, 2019
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged condensation, cyclone development, evaporation of rain, latent cooling, latent heat, midlatitude cyclone, moist effects | Leave a comment |
The thick, white fog outside the airport window left no doubt about the reason...
Air, Climate, Weather

Improving weather forecasts in the Arctic

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date May 2, 2019
Matilda Hallerstig
Tagged Arctic, icing, numerical weather prediction, polar lows, Weather forecasting | Leave a comment |
SciSnack will celebrate it’s 7th year of existence in 2019, and it’s about time...
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SciSnack: The Next Generation

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date December 13, 2018
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged climatesnack, leadership, SciSnack | Leave a comment |
We have the pleasure of welcoming the students from the Earth Surface Dynamics (ESD)...
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Learning together about Processes at the Earth’s Vulnerable Skin: The ESD 2018 summer school in Germany

Author SciSnack Date October 25, 2018
SciSnack
Tagged Earth Surface Dynamics, ESD summer school, international research network, Martin Trauth Mark Maslin Verena Foerster, student collaboration, summer school | Leave a comment |
When I ask my friends in Bergen why they don’t ride their bikes more...
Air, Climate, Culture, Health, People, Society

Do Bergen cyclists care about rain?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date May 22, 2018
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged Bergen, cycling, habits, Rain, Weather | Leave a comment |
Have you ever thought about what you would talk about in a conversation with...
Air, Climate, Earth

Meteorology is out of this world! – Extra-terrestrial meteorology

Author Andrew Seidl Date October 17, 2017
Andrew Seidl
Tagged extra-terrestrial, hexagon, meteorology, saturn's hexagon, space, space storm | Leave a comment |
Locals observe large differences in precipitation on short distances, and people have done for...
Air, Climate, Earth, People, Systems, Uncategorized

Terrain and climate models

Author Marie Pontoppidan Date April 24, 2017
Marie Pontoppidan
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, climatesnack, Precipitation, Rain, Weather | Leave a comment |
Imagine surfing a wave that is several kilometers long. Waves like this actually exist....
Air, Climate, People, Sea

Surfing atmospheric waves – the Morning Glory phenomenon

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 13, 2016
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged atmospheric waves, clouds, gliders, hanggliding, morning glory, wave bore, wave clouds, Waves | Leave a comment |
Early last week, climate PhD students from the Nordic countries met in Upsete, deep in...
News

Debating social media in the Norwegian mountains.

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 30, 2016
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged climate PhD, climate scicomm, Nordic Climate PhD conference 2016, PhD debate, scicomm, social media, Twitter scicomm, Upsete | Leave a comment |
    Everyone waited for radio broadcasting to crumble, but then something incredible happened....
News, Outreach

‘DIY’ Journalism for Scientists through Scientific Podcasting

Author Ashley Braunthal Date April 20, 2016
Ashley Braunthal
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Sometimes we hear people saying: “It’s the little things that matter most”. Indeed, only...
Air, Climate, Earth, People, Physics, Society

My weather app shows rain at a sunny day!?

Author Lucas Höppler Date March 18, 2016
Lucas Höppler
Tagged flash-flood, Flood, Floods, hydroelectric, innovation, little things, Micro Rain Radar, MRR, suddenly occuring rain, umbrella, weather app | 1 Comment |
Slippery sloppy slushy slopes, slimy slimy silvery soaps. Fluttering fluffy frosty froth, Does indoor...
Air, Climate, Culture

The Isobar Czar (of Bergen)

Author Ashley Braunthal Date March 7, 2016
Ashley Braunthal
Tagged Bergen, Cyclone, Rain, slush, snow | 1 Comment |
When modelling the natural world we are often faced with limitations of our understanding,...
Air, Climate, Sea

Simplifying the equations

Author Aleksi Nummelin Date February 11, 2016
Aleksi Nummelin
Tagged eddies, OGCM, parameterization, simplified equations | Leave a comment |
In the second annual UEA Xmas SciSnack group post, we have chosen to explore...
Air, Biology, Climate, Culture, Life, People, Sea, Society

Disastrous Disaster Movies

Author ClimateSnack UEA Date December 17, 2015
ClimateSnack UEA
Tagged atmosphere, Climate, movies, Ocean, Weather | 1 Comment |
  The SedWhat Podcast Episode 01: The Climate Messenger – Dr. Erlend Moster Knudsen...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Ice, News, Outreach, People, Sea, Society

The SedWhat Podcast – Episode 01: The Climate Messenger

Author Ashley Braunthal Date December 4, 2015
Ashley Braunthal
Tagged CONFERENCE, COP21, POLETOPARIS | Leave a comment |
The wind combs the land, the trees, the bushes. The slow growing vegetation drawn...
Air, Climate

Combed trees

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date November 16, 2015
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged devon, prevailing wind, weather poem | 1 Comment |
Do you know where your science story burns to engage your target audience? Did...
News

Event: Where the Science Story Burns

Author SciSnack Date October 22, 2015
SciSnack
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In the 1920s your fridge could kill you. A range of explosive, flammable and...
Air, Chemistry, Climate, People, Society

CFCs and Ozone: The Hole Story

Author Mike Newland Date September 7, 2015
Mike Newland
Tagged Antarctica, atmosphere, CFC, Farman, Midgley, Ozone, ozone hole, pollution, Stratosphere | 1 Comment |
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