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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 |
Many PhD researchers use climate models with little thought of how they were developed....
Air, People, Systems

A History of Climate Models

Author Amee O'Callaghan Date January 22, 2014
Amee O'Callaghan
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, computers, forecasting, history, Modelling, numerical method, numerical scheme, Weather, weather prediction | 5 Comments |
Expert

Consider the Introduction

Author SciSnack Date January 20, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged introduction, planning, process, scicomm, writing | Leave a comment |
Most PhD students try to perfect a way of describing their research in a...
Air, Life

Saharan dust: the Amazon’s fertiliser

Author Siân Williams Date January 2, 2014
Siân Williams
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Basin, Amazon rainforest, Atlantic, Cayenne, Dust, Nutrient, Sahara, South America | Leave a comment |
As 2013 draws to a close, so does ClimateSnack’s first year in existence. In...
News

Happy New Year from ClimateSnack

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date December 31, 2013
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
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Look at the beautiful mugs the UK ClimateSnack gang got themselves for Christmas. It...
News

The ClimateSnack Mug Challenge

Author SciSnack Date December 18, 2013
SciSnack
Tagged challenge, climatesnack, mugs | Leave a comment |
A lot of emphasis when it comes to climate change is placed on reducing...
Air

Climate pollution in the near term

Author Matt Kasoar Date December 15, 2013
Matt Kasoar
Tagged Air pollution, Air quality, Black carbon, Carbon dioxide, Climate, Global warming, Health, Methane, SLCP, Tropospheric ozone | Leave a comment |
Last Friday saw the beginnings of a ClimateSnack group at the University of Birmingham,...
News

ClimateSnack arrives at the University of Birmingham

Author SciSnack Date December 11, 2013
SciSnack
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In June, the remote town of Oulu in northern Finland was, for a brief...
People

ClimateSnack: The slow-burning conference

Author Will Ball Date December 6, 2013
Will Ball
Tagged Climate, climatesnack, Communication, Finland, Oulu, Scientist | 1 Comment |
In recent years the stratosphere has become a hot topic in the science community....
Air

What Is A Sudden Stratospheric Warming And Why Should We Care?

Author Amee O'Callaghan Date December 4, 2013
Amee O'Callaghan
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, Polar Vortex, Prediction, Stratosphere, Sudden Stratospheric Warming, Weather | Leave a 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 |
A beautiful, yet daunting, image of the sunset taken during the 2011 Thailand floods...
Air, Land, People

Global flood risk under climate change (part 1): observational evidence

Author Matthias Schmid Date November 28, 2013
Matthias Schmid
Tagged 1-in-a-100-year flood, Climate change, Floods, Stream flow, Thailand | Leave a comment |
Imagine trying to explain whether or not it is a wet and warm winter...
Air, Systems

To index or not to index?

Author Iselin Medhaug Date November 26, 2013
Iselin Medhaug
Tagged Arctic, Atlantic Ocean, Azores, Iceland, Index, Low-pressure area, NAO, North Atlantic Oscillation, Norway | Leave a comment |
Last Friday saw the launch of a new ClimateSnack group at UCL (University College...
News

UCL joins ClimateSnack

Author SciSnack Date November 25, 2013
SciSnack
Tagged Climate, climatesnack, Geography, london, UCL | Leave a comment |
I can hardly believe my luck: to interview the greatest climate researcher of our...
Air, People, Uncategorized

Captain Climate (Part 1) – Talking to Wally Broecker

Author Hella Wittmeier Date November 21, 2013
Hella Wittmeier
Tagged Antarctic Cold Reversal, Antarctica, Climatology, Columbia University, Environment, Global warming, National Medal of Science, Younger Dryas | 2 Comments |
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 |
In order to quantify the role that the Sun has played in recent climate...
Systems

Our variable star (part 1): Getting trends in solar observations right

Author Will Ball Date November 11, 2013
Will Ball
Tagged Energy, Irradiance, solar cycle, Sun, total solar irradiance | 2 Comments |
ClimateSnack Tromsø had its first meeting on Friday at the University of Tromsø. Despite...
News

ClimateSnack Tromsø

Author SciSnack Date October 21, 2013
SciSnack
Tagged Tromsø, writing group | Leave a 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 |
The Hadley Circulation, responsible for the tropical humid band across the equator and the...
Air, Life

Rainforests in the Sahara

Author Dilshad Shawki Date October 9, 2013
Dilshad Shawki
Tagged Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric circulation, Hadley, Hadley cell, Hadley Circulation, Ozone depletion, Sahara, Southern Hemisphere | 1 Comment |
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