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  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 |
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 |
I study the physical climate system. It is easy, maybe even convenient, to think...
Climate, People, Society

Characteristics of climate science denial

Author Karin van der Wiel Date July 3, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Climate science denial, FLICC, Global warming, greenhouse gases, science communication, Uncertainty | 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 |
In April, Valerie Kumer (University of Bergen) and I had the pleasure to organize...
News

ClimateSnack workshop in Uganda

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date May 29, 2015
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged Makere University, Uganda, writing course, Writing skills | 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 |
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 |
There are moments during your PhD where you wonder what on Earth you’re doing....
Ice, People, Sea

The race to the South Pole (or why I became a polar oceanographer)

Author Céline Heuzé Date April 6, 2015
Céline Heuzé
Tagged Amundsen, penguin, polar exploration, Scott | Leave a comment |
  If you study hard to become a diplomat, you manage to work for...
Land, Life, People, Sea, Society

The unpredicted consequences of the life of Monsieur de Lesseps.

Author Umberto Binetti Date March 11, 2015
Umberto Binetti
Tagged change, ecology, Lesseps, Mediterranean Sea, migration, Red Sea, Suez Canal | 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 |
Norwegians love their mountains. They go there for hiking in the summer, skiing in...
Earth, Land

The mystery of the Norwegian mountains

Author Vivi Pedersen Date February 25, 2015
Vivi Pedersen
Tagged Climate, geology, Norway, topography | Leave a comment |
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 |
Here is another insightful post by professional writer, Dallas Murphy. Dallas conducts annual science-writing...
Expert

Consider the Audience

Author SciSnack Date January 6, 2015
SciSnack
Tagged Dallas Murphy, graduate writing, know your audience, science writing, scientific audience, technical writing, Writing skills | Leave a comment |
To celebrate both the Christmas period and the variety of nationalities within the UEA...
Air, Culture, People

Worldwide weird weather words

Author ClimateSnack UEA Date December 17, 2014
ClimateSnack UEA
Tagged idioms, meteorology, Rain, science communication, Weather, Wind | Leave a comment |
“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the...
Air, Ice, People, Society

Why care about Arctic sea ice – it is so far from where I live?

Author Marie Kapsch Date December 9, 2014
Marie Kapsch
Tagged Arctic sea ice, Climate change, extreme events, Weather | 1 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 |
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 |
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 |
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