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The Netherlands, ‘Nederland’, its name literally means ‘low country’. In the CIA World Factbook...
Land, People, Sea, Society

Flood management below sea level – strategies from the Netherlands

Author Karin van der Wiel Date February 3, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Flood, Global warming, Netherlands, Precipitation, Rivers, Sea, Sea level rise, Storm surge | Leave a comment |
The African Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate variability. It...
Air, Sea

The effect of ENSO on Sahelian Sudan rainfall

Author Abubakr A. M. Salih Date November 13, 2014
Abubakr A. M. Salih
Tagged atmosphere, El Nino, ENSO, Monsoon, Precipitation, Rain, Sahara | Leave a comment |
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As I boarded the ferry to go and see my family, I recalled my...
Climate, People, Sea

Sinking on the Seven Seas

Author Céline Heuzé Date October 30, 2014
Céline Heuzé
Tagged Accidents, iceberg, Ship, Waves | Leave a comment |
    In early 2014 I participated in a research cruise to the Amundsen...
Air, Ice, Sea

The retreating glaciers of the Amundsen Sea

Author Richard Jones Date October 2, 2014
Richard Jones
Tagged iSTAR, Pine Island Glacier, radiosondes, West Antarctica | Leave a comment |
7.2 billion people live on this planet. All these people need to eat. Eating...
Land, People, Sea, Systems

Urban Metabolism

Author Anne Morée Date July 16, 2014
Anne Morée
Tagged Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Urban, Waste, Water | Leave a comment |
‘El Niño’ – a Spanish phrase describing a global climate phenomenon. How did this...
Air, Sea

El Niño: a historical exploration and 2014 outlook

Author Karin van der Wiel Date June 24, 2014
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged atmosphere, convection, El Nino, Ocean, sea surface temperatures, Weather | Leave a comment |
The IPCC’s Working Group II report published in March this year gave centre stage...
Land, Life, People, Sea

What price ecosystem services?

Author Andrew Papworth Date May 28, 2014
Andrew Papworth
Tagged Animals, Australia, Biodiversity, Climate change, Ecosystems, Food Production, Gila Monster, greenhouse gases, Health, India, IPCC, Labour Productivity, Mangroves, Plants, Seas, Services, Sherman's Lagoon, Shrimp, TEEB, Thailand, Toomey, USA, Vultures, Waves | Leave a comment |
Coastal erosion by wind and rain is a phenomenon which occurred even before humans...
Land, Sea

Room with unexpected view: when coastal erosion strikes

Author Céline Heuzé Date March 11, 2014
Céline Heuzé
Tagged cliff, coastal erosion, Dieppe | 1 Comment |
I find myself often shying away from conversations about my research for the fear...
People, Sea

Dallas Murphy: Science story-teller (part 1)

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date March 3, 2014
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged Ben Harden, Dallas Murphy, North Icelandic Jet, Science stories, To The Denmark Strait, Woods Hole Oceanographic | 1 Comment |
News from another country Watching from the comfort of a European city, the images...
Sea

Does a warming world increase the risk of North Atlantic tsunamis?

Author Matt Owen Date February 21, 2014
Matt Owen
Tagged Gas hydrates, Matt Owen, North Atlantic, Submarine landslides, Tsunami | Leave a comment |
Quite often people ask me about my field of study in parties or activity...
Land, Sea, Systems

Hydrology and hydrological model

Author Lu Li Date January 29, 2014
Lu Li
Tagged climatesnack, Flood, Global warming, hydrologic cycle, hydrological model, hydrology, Modelling, Precipitation, Water cycle, watershed | 1 Comment |
The dark days of winter may have you longing for warmer and sunnier times....
Air, Land, Sea

Excitement at the front: one island, two sea breezes

Author Karin van der Wiel Date January 24, 2014
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged convection, gfd, sea breeze, Weather | 1 Comment |
Even though many people may associate itsy bitsy spiders with waterspouts, you won’t see...
Air, Sea

Waterspout sprouts in Norway

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date November 29, 2013
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged storm, tornado, Vortex, water spout, waterspout, Wind | Leave a comment |
As my niece just turned 8 and is incredibly curious about sciences, I thought...
Ice, Sea

Fun with fluids: ocean mixing and hot chocolate

Author Céline Heuzé Date November 14, 2013
Céline Heuzé
Tagged Home, Hot chocolate, Ocean, Physics for kids | 1 Comment |
A big winter storm is brewing in the North Atlantic. Meteorologists on TV exclaim...
Sea

The making of an ocean wave (forecast)

Author Johannes Röhrs Date October 11, 2013
Johannes Röhrs
Tagged Flood, Modelling, Nordic Seas, Numerical wave prediction, Storm surge, Surface gravity waves, Swell forecast, Wave, Wave forecast, Wave model, Waves, Wind wave, Wind wave model | 4 Comments |
Fridtjof Nansen sailed the Arctic and Nordic seas and measured the oceans for many...
People, Sea

Our lega-seas of data

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date October 6, 2013
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged Benjamin Pfeil, CARINA, Data Management, Fridtjof Nansen, oceanographic observations, scientific legacy, SOCAT | Leave a comment |
In 1841 the American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe published a story entitled...
Sea

Can the “Maelstrom of the Lofoten Basin” swallow ships?

Author Alexander Korablev Date August 28, 2013
Alexander Korablev
Tagged Lofoten, Maelstrom, Swallow ships, Vortex, Whirlpool | 2 Comments |
What are ice edge jets and why should we care? The ice edge is...
Air, Ice, Sea

Low Level Jets at the Ice Edge

Author Stefan Keiderling Date July 3, 2013
Stefan Keiderling
Tagged Arctic, Atmospheric Jets | 1 Comment |
The globe is warming, glaciers are melting, sea level is rising and ice caps...
Air, Sea

If temperatures aren’t rising, where does the heat go?

Author Iselin Medhaug Date May 1, 2013
Iselin Medhaug
Tagged cooling trends, Global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, heat storage | 1 Comment |
Variability in our oceans influences the variability in our atmosphere through complex air-sea interactions....
Ice, Sea

Alexander Korablev: On the quest for variability

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date April 25, 2013
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged Atlas, Great Salinity Anomaly, Nordic Seas | Leave a comment |
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