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Tag Archives: Climate

Chew Bahir on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia is a tough and merciless...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Land, People

Did the mega-lakes of Ethiopia make us human?

Author Markus L Fischer Date January 15, 2019
Markus L Fischer
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
“All life, and all art, have a common field of tension: to live versus...
Climate, Culture, Outreach, People, Society

From different viewpoints we convey our insight: Interview with Rolf Aamot

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date October 16, 2018
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged art, Climate, outreach, scicomm, science communication | Leave a comment |
Locals observe large differences in precipitation on short distances, and people have done for...
Air, Climate, Earth, People, Systems

Terrain and climate models

Author Marie Pontoppidan Date April 24, 2017
Marie Pontoppidan
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, climatesnack, Precipitation, Rain, Weather | Leave a comment |
When I was at school I loved science but I hated having to learn...
Climate, Earth, Land

Standing on the shoulders of giants: why old science still matters

Author Jan Schuurman Date May 19, 2016
Jan Schuurman
Tagged Aridity, Climate, east africa, East Africa Summer School, Ethiopia, Hyperspectral, Lake Sediments, Last Glacial Maximum, Proxy, Younger Dryas | 1 Comment |
Climate, Outreach, Systems

Spinning up the past, present and future climate

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date May 18, 2016
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
Meningitis is a deadly disease that causes massive damage to the human brain. Young...
Climate, Health, People, Society, Systems

How wind brings death to West Africa

Author Frank Brenner Date April 28, 2016
Frank Brenner
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, Infectious Disease, Meningitis, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
  Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing society today. To understand...
Climate, Outreach, Sea, Society

Do you want to become a climate researcher?

Author Johanna Englhardt Date April 8, 2016
Johanna Englhardt
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, history, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
In the second annual UEA Xmas SciSnack group post, we have chosen to explore...
Air, Biology, Climate, Culture, Life, People, Sea, Society

Disastrous Disaster Movies

Author ClimateSnack UEA Date December 17, 2015
ClimateSnack UEA
Tagged atmosphere, Climate, movies, Ocean, Weather | 1 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 |
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 |
The familiar click of the alarm, whistling, ukulele, violin, … “Oh well in five...
Air

Clouds, aerosol particles, and Research Flight 10 over the southeast Pacific

Author Chris Terai Date June 15, 2014
Chris Terai
Tagged aerosols, Climate, clouds, observations, Precipitation | 2 Comments |
If we bulldoze a hill to make way for a road or a house,...
Ice, Land

Glaciers bulldozing the landscape the slow way

Author Iselin Medhaug Date June 11, 2014
Iselin Medhaug
Tagged Climate, glacier, landscapes, melt water, sediment coring, sediments | Leave a 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Bergen is one of the wettest cities in northern Europe where normal winters are...
Life, People

Rhododendron City

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date June 18, 2013
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged aboretum, Bergen, Climate, colorful, Rhododendron, spring | 5 Comments |
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