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  While reading reports from various international organisations in the early stages of my...
Culture, People

Where is the World Environment Organization?

Author Lucien Georgeson Date April 2, 2014
Lucien Georgeson
Tagged Climate change, environmental governance, sustainable development, unep, united nations, World Environment Organization | 2 Comments |
Forecasting the weather is very difficult, but the concept itself is simple. If we...
Air

Forecasting the present

Author Andrew McRae Date March 17, 2014
Andrew McRae
Tagged 3D-Var, 4D-Var, Adjoint method, Data assimilation, Forecast initialisation, Weather forecasting | 1 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 |
During the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu late last month, ClimateSnack and Resclim held...
News

Discussing science writing and communication

Author SciSnack Date March 10, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged Christie Wilcox, Christina Schallenberg, Heather Galindo, Kim Martini, Ocean Sciences, scicomm, science communication, Writing skills | Leave a 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 |
Africa is arguably the most diverse continent on Earth. This incredible land stretches across...
Culture, People, Society

Africa’s Climate Challenges

Author Rachel White Date February 26, 2014
Rachel White
Tagged adaptation, Africa Climate Conference, Climate change, forecasting, policy, Rachel White, social challenges | Leave a 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 |
Wind energy assessment is a bit of a gamble. Companies use a global wind...
Air, Systems

Improving the odds with my LiDAR

Author Valerie Kumer Date February 20, 2014
Valerie Kumer
Tagged LiDAR, turbulence, wind energy | Leave a comment |
Climate change is a major threat to humanity, on a health, economic and social...
Systems

Climate Extremes – Why the past is just as important as the future

Author Gabriele Messori Date February 19, 2014
Gabriele Messori
Tagged Climate change, extreme events, forecasting, North Atlantic Oscillation | Leave a comment |
Wally Broecker is a climate researcher who has had so much impact in his...
People, Systems

Captain Climate (part 2) – Wally Broecker on CO2 and Global Warming

Author Hella Wittmeier Date February 17, 2014
Hella Wittmeier
Tagged CO2 | Leave a comment |
Making a timely weather forecast, or running a high-resolution global climate model, requires the...
Air, Systems

Supercomputer says no: gridding the Earth in next-generation weather and climate models

Author Andrew McRae Date February 10, 2014
Andrew McRae
Tagged Climate Models, Modelling, Weather | 2 Comments |
Last Wednesday marked the birth of ClimateSnack at Stockholm University (SU). Eleven enthusiastic ‘snackers’...
News

ClimateSnack at Stockholm University

Author SciSnack Date February 5, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged climatesnack, Stockholm, writing group | Leave a comment |
Expert

Paragraphs: A Manual for the Idea Machine

Author SciSnack Date February 3, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged Daniel Soule, Grammatology, Message, Paragraphs, Science, writing | Leave a comment |
Carrying a pair of giant pink lungs in front of the Polish Ministry of...
Culture, People

Cough for Coal at COP19

Author Gabriele Messori Date January 30, 2014
Isobel Braithwaite and Gabriele Messori
Tagged Climate change, COP19, Health, UNFCCC, Warsaw | 1 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 |
Expert

Getting to the “So What?” of Your Science

Author SciSnack Date January 27, 2014
SciSnack
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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 |
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