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Monday, May 12, 2008

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25 March 2008 - Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World

12 March 2008 - Atlantic's Gulf Stream has huge influence on atmosphere

12 October 2007 - The IPCC and Al Gore win Nobel Peace Prize

22 August 2007 - "Ocean circulation noisy, not stalling", Quirin Schiermeier, Nature 448, 844-84, | doi:10.1038/448844b (pdf)

June 2007: WCRP feature article on VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study

16 February 2007 Hot Climate Science in Cold Regions: New Study on Under-Ice Lakes in Antarctica In a study published in Science, WCRP/CliC scientist Dr Helen Fricker and colleagues observed sub-glacial lake discharges in Antarctica and discussed a possible sudden sea-level rise, an issue addressed by the WCRP Task Force on Sea-Level Rise (article)

February 2007 - Sea level on the rise: The sea-level is rising faster than previously estimated. A new study published in Science suggests that past projections underestimated the extent of global sea-level rise

5 February 2007 - From Science magazine: 2008 U.S. Budget: Ocean Research gets Modest Boost

13 September 2006 - NOAA issues unscheduled El Nino advisory

12 September 2006 - New study 'closes loop' between warming and storm strength, authors say

25 August 2006 - The latest issue of Science magazine is a special edition on the Global Hydrological Cycle and Freshwater Resources. Several articles and reviews discuss the melting ice sheets. Bruce Petersen's article entitled "Trajectory Shifts in the Arctic and Subartic Freshwater Cycle" can be found here. The BBC report on the Science review is found here.

9 June 2006 - CloudSat System Offers Views of Storms and from NASA: First Images From NASA'S Cloudsat Have Scientists Sky-High

28 April 2006 - NASA launches two satellites to study clouds (see additional information on the CLOUDSAT and CALIPSO projects)

20 April 2006 - Climate Change Will Be Significant but Not Extreme, Study Predicts (Washington Post). To view the full Nature article by Gabriele Hegerl, click here.

19 April 2006 - More devastating hurricanes possible (View the Washington Post article)

31 March 2006 - Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble

16 March 2006 - New study tries to 'nail down link' between sea temps, hurricanes

3 March 2006 - ENVISAT Altimeter Watches Pacific for Cold Tongue Of La Nina

Science Tidbits

2 May 2008 - Oxygen Depletion Zones in the Tropical Oceans expanding - maybe due to Global Warming

2 May 2008 - Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans (Science magazine)

1 May 2008 -Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector (Nature)

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