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There is much more to mud than mud masks and mud castles. Mud can...
Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

What’s in mud

Author Anne Morée Date April 4, 2019
Anne Morée
Tagged carbon isotopes, climate PhD, oceanography, publication | Leave a comment |
All scientific statements must be testable, and any such test should be reproducible. However,...
Climate, Earth, Systems

Software in science: a plea to free your code

Author Marco van Hulten Date November 13, 2018
Marco van Hulten
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How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea?...
Climate, Earth, Land, Systems

How long does it take a mountain to die and why does it matter to us?

Author Xumin Pan Date November 6, 2018
Xumin Pan
Tagged ESD summer school, geomorphology, orogen, Qilian, Rivers | Leave a comment |
Water is essential for life. It is a critical resource to be preserved and...
Biology, Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

Nature’s water purifier: Surface water-groundwater interactions

Author Reynold Chow Date October 29, 2018
Reynold Chow
Tagged Earth Surface Dynamics, groundwater, hyporheic exchange, micro-plastics, River dynamics, river pollutants, surface water-groundwater interactions | Leave a comment |
Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in...
Climate, Systems

The power of a butterfly

Author Francine Schevenhoven Date May 31, 2018
Francine Schevenhoven
Tagged butterfly effect, chaos, Climate Models, super modeling | 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 |
Weather and climate shape cultures and the lives of people everywhere. People have been...
Climate, Society, Systems

Climate detectives: What a Historical Climatologist does

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 21, 2016
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged acclimatization, Bombay, George Adamson, Historical climatology, Lucretia West, Monsoon, monsoon onset, Mountstuart Elphinstone | 1 Comment |
For about 75 years, many brilliant minds all over the world have struggled to...
Climate, Earth, Life, People, Physics, Sea, Systems

The Century Problem – An Unsolved Puzzle in Meteorology

Author Lucas Höppler Date May 27, 2016
Lucas Höppler
Tagged a and b parameters, century problem, flash-flood, Flood, hydroelectric, hydrological model, hydropower, innovation, Micro Rain Radar, MRR, radar, unsolved puzzle, Z-R relation | 2 Comments |
Climate, Outreach, Systems

Spinning up the past, present and future climate

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date May 18, 2016
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
There are 33 million people in Kenya and this number is increasing every year....
Climate, Systems

Can conservation agriculture solve the food security crisis in Kenya?

Author Dorcas Kalele Date May 10, 2016
Dorcas Kalele
Tagged Conservation agriculture, Food Security, sustainable development | 2 Comments |
Meningitis is a deadly disease that causes massive damage to the human brain. Young...
Climate, Health, People, Society, Systems

How wind brings death to West Africa

Author Frank Brenner Date April 28, 2016
Frank Brenner
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, Infectious Disease, Meningitis, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
Fifty six million years ago there was a super global warming event known as...
Climate, Systems

Can investigating former climates really help us understand the future?

Author Celestine Nwojiji Date April 26, 2016
Celestine Nwojiji
Tagged Climate Models, paleo-climate, PETM | Leave a comment |
  You may have come across the term COP21 or indeed heard the phrase...
Climate, People, Society, Systems

What is COP21? By a layman for a layman

Author Osgur McDermott Long Date August 10, 2015
Osgur McDermott Long
Tagged Climate Action, Climate change, COP21, Road to Paris | Leave a comment |
The quote “all models are wrong, but some are useful”  by Box and Draper...
Physics, Systems

In the climate model jungle

Author Annemarie Eckes Date April 13, 2015
Annemarie Eckes
Tagged AOGCM, Climate Models, climatesnack, EBM, EMIC, ESM, Global warming, Modelling | Leave a comment |
Most scientists will encounter statistics at some point in their career. Sometimes people find...
Systems

Statistics in Science

Author Amee O'Callaghan Date December 2, 2014
Amee O'Callaghan
Tagged error of the transposed conditional, fallacy of the transposed conditional, logical errors, p-values, statistical testing, stats | 2 Comments |
For the recent changes since the industrial revolution and the onset of anthropogenic climate...
Physics, Systems

Our variable star (part 3): Solar irradiance back in time

Author Maria Dasi Espuig Date November 7, 2014
Maria Dasi Espuig and Will Ball
Tagged Energy, solar cycle, solar magnetic fields, Sun, total solar irradiance | Leave a comment |
You may have heard that the world is getting warmer. But it would be...
Air, Systems

The world is certainly warming. What about where I live?

Author Robert Wills Date November 3, 2014
Robert Wills
Tagged atmosphere, Climate, Climate change, Climate Models, Global warming, Internal variability, Regional climate change, Rossby wave | Leave a comment |
A GLOBAL VIEW ON FIRES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT Forest fires have been around for...
Air, Land, People, Systems

Should we suppress the fire?

Author Stephane Mangeon Date October 22, 2014
Stephane Mangeon
Tagged Air quality, Australia, fire, firefighting, forest, Indonesia | Leave a comment |
You might expect that a term like “monsoon” has an agreed definition and that...
People, Society, Systems

The People’s Monsoon

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date August 26, 2014
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged Bangladesh, Monsoon, Perception, Rain | Leave a comment |
We know from direct observations that the Sun varies. We’ve been monitoring the energy...
Systems

Our variable star (part 2): Explaining the variations

Author Will Ball Date July 22, 2014
Will Ball and Maria Dasi Espuig
Tagged Energy, Irradiance, solar cycle, Sun, total solar irradiance | Leave a comment |
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