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Science Tidbits

  • 5 March 2009 - Can sea levels diagnose the health of part of the world's ocean circulation?
  • 19 February 2009 - North Atlantic Ocean is world's 'climate superpower'
  • 28 January 2009 - Global Warming and Atlantic Hurricane Intensity
  • 22 October 2008 - British scientists go cloud-hopping in the Pacific to improve climate predictions
  • 9 October 2008 - Future Risk of Hurricanes: the Role of Climate Change
  • 20 June 2008 - NASA launches satellite to keep a weather, climate eye open
  • 2 May 2008 - Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans (Science magazine)
  • 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
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    Announcements

    First Circular Announcement for WCRP Open Science Conference October 2011

    7-9 June 2010 - US CLIVAR Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Annual Meeting (Miami, FL)

    International CLIVAR seeks new Director - closing date 29 March 2010.

    17-19 March 2010 - High Latitude Surface Flux Workshop in conjunction with SEAFLUX (Boulder, CO)

    Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise(PACE) seeking Organizational Partners

    PSMI Publication on Best Practices for Process Studies released and has reached #6 on AMS most viewed list. (BAMS, July 2009)

     

     

     

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    February 2010

    YOTC-GS Alpha Prototype for Satellite data has been released to the public

    14 August 2009 - Past Atlantic Hurricanes linked to Climate Change

    10 August 2009 - Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

     

     

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