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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 |
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
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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 |
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