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Non-stationarity: New vocabulary for a changing climate
A few years ago I attended a workshop for early career scientists to discuss frontiers in integrated water-climate-society vulnerability and adaptation science. This interdisciplinary area of science...
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ESNO Basics: What is it?
Through many posts here on the Scientists’ Blog, we, in one way or another, discuss ENSO. ENSO, or El Niño-Southern Oscillation, is a quasi-periodic climate pattern that occurs in the tropical Pacific...
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ENSO Basics: What’s up with the weather?
In the first post in this series, we looked at what ENSO is. Remember that the atmosphere and oceans are always moving, and in general, those movements follow a specified pattern. When the movement...
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The chicken and egg story of global warming and extreme droughts: A lesson on...
I recently read that the extreme drought in western North America during 2000-2004 actually resulted in more carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. In the article in Nature Geoscience, it...
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GLOBE at AMS – sharing our community
This week I attended the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Austin, TX. I started attending eight years ago as a senior undergraduate meteorology major at...
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A tale of two extremes
Weather extremes have become a common theme in the news headlines the past few weeks. For example, nearly every part of the United States has been experiencing one of two extremes – either frigid cold...
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Trees in trouble: what affect does tree mortality have on climate change
Through our trees in trouble series, we’ve examined trees in the Sahel zone in Africa and the United States. This problem, climate change and dying trees, has been seen on every continent, the only...
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An interesting relationship: soil temperature and climate change
It seems common place that warmer air temperature leads to warmer soil temperature. And while this relationship seems intuitive, the effect isn’t always studied, especially with respect to the response...
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The wolverine: new proposals may renew hope in their survival
A couple of years ago, I attended a seminar sponsored by the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on how climate change is threatening the...
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Connecting pollutants and air temperature in the Maldives
With climate change, there are many relationships that are understood, and many others that are not. Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan from The Scripps Institute in San Diego has spent the last fifteen...
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Plankton: a small, but important, player in life on Earth
This week’s blog post comes to us from Dr. Janis Steele and Dr. Brooks McCutchen. Drs. Steele and McCutchen, along with their three sons, have been aboard Research Vessel Llyr since April 24, 2013....
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GLOBE’s long history – what can you learn from GLOBE’s long-term data?
GLOBE celebrated its 18th birthday on Earth Day, 22 April 2013. This means that, in some cases, you can look at nearly 18 years of data collected through the years by GLOBE students. One school,...
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The transition seasons – why measurements now are very important
The seasons of spring and autumn are seasons of transition in the mid-latitudes – they hold onto memories of the season before while providing glimpses of the season to come. Recently, the Northern...
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