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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 ClimateSnack Date November 25, 2013
ClimateSnack
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 ClimateSnack Date October 21, 2013
ClimateSnack
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 |
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 many ways, glaciers behave like ketchup. Once the layer of ketchup reaches a...
Ice

Ice can flow like ketchup

Author Clemens Spensberger Date October 4, 2013
Clemens Spensberger
Tagged ablation, accumulation, crevasse, glacier, ice flow, turspor | 5 Comments |
Precipitation is notoriously hard to forecast accurately. The formation of precipitation is a fine...
Air

To rain or not to rain: Precipitation in a changing climate

Author Rachel White Date September 30, 2013
Rachel White
Tagged Climate, Drought, Environment, Flood, Global warming, Rain, Uncertainty, Water cycle | 1 Comment |
From lab coat to laptop: making the switch from academia to science journalism is...
Culture

Becoming a climate change communicator

Author Marion Ferrat Date September 27, 2013
Marion Ferrat
Tagged Climate, science communication | Leave a comment |
Presentations are perhaps one of the most daunting ways that we have to communicate...
News

Presentation skills

Author ClimateSnack Date September 26, 2013
ClimateSnack
Tagged clear, concise, conference tips, good speaking, Presentation course, presentation skills, speech | 1 Comment |
Turspor is an exciting outreach project developed by researchers at the Bjerknes Center for...
News

Turspor trip tracking with ClimateSnack

Author ClimateSnack Date September 9, 2013
ClimateSnack
Tagged dnt, landscapes, scicomm, turspor, uib | 1 Comment |
The Sun is Earth’s largest source of energy. In addition to being essential for...
Air, Ice

Warm Winds of Change: Sporadic Heat Transport in the Atmosphere

Author Gabriele Messori Date September 2, 2013
Gabriele Messori
Tagged atmosphere, extreme events, heat transport, Sea-ice | 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 |
In my first snack in this series, I wrote that we need clearly defined...
Air, People

Confusing the Definition (part 2): Unraveling the Confusion

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date July 19, 2013
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged applied v pure, confusing science, Monsoon, Monsoon definition, Rain, scientific objectives, Wind | Leave a comment |
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