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When you envision what it looks like around the North Pole, you probably imagine...
Air, Ice, Sea

The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: Cracking Arctic sea ice

Author Henrike Wilborn Date October 6, 2022
Henrike Wilborn
Tagged Arctic, cracks, North Pole, Ocean, Sea-ice, warming | Leave a comment |
Stable water isotopes (SWIs) have been used in meteorology since the 1950s, but they...
Air, Climate

Stable water isotopes: a powerful – but often overlooked – tool in the meteorological toolbox

Author Andrew Seidl Date August 26, 2022
Andrew Seidl
Tagged isotopes, meteorology, Water | Leave a comment |
Between the warm tropics and the cold polar regions exists a broad belt of...
Air, Climate, Sea

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

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

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 |
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

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 |
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 | 2 Comments |
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 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 |
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 |
Nobody likes to receive negative feedback, because this usually means that you have done...
Air, Ice, Land, Life

Why negative feedback is good for the climate

Author Annemarie Eckes Date August 4, 2015
Annemarie Eckes
Tagged Climate change, feedback, Ice-Albedo feedback, silicate weathering, water-vapor feedback, Weather | Leave a comment |
Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering caused by VOCs emitted by forests. Behind the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa lies a landscape, reddish in the...
Air, Life, Society

Frits W. Went: Turning the Air Blue

Author Mike Newland Date June 2, 2015
Mike Newland
Tagged aerosol, biogenic emissions, blue haze, forest, mie, rayleigh, scattering, VOCs, Went | Leave a comment |
As everyone living in Bergen knows, it can rain a lot. Most people have...
Air, Life, People, Physics

The Famous ”Person-Running-Through-Rain-Problem”

Author Patrik Bohlinger Date May 26, 2015
Patrik Bohlinger
Tagged drier, dry, person, Precipitation, Rain, run, running, walk, wet, wetter | Leave a comment |
I was dangling out of an aeroplane hatch, my legs stretching towards the ground...
Air

Glorious Glories

Author Amee O'Callaghan Date May 11, 2015
Amee O'Callaghan
Tagged anti-coronae, glory, mie theory, radiative dynamics | Leave a comment |
What are polar lows? Through the centuries seafarers in the Nordic Seas have told...
Air

Polar lows: what fuels Arctic hurricanes?

Author Denis Sergeev Date March 4, 2015
Denis Sergeev
Tagged atmosphere, Energy, extreme events, Nordic Seas, polar lows | Leave a comment |
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