The tropical Pacific Ocean remains in the grips of a cool La Niña, as shown by new data.
How Do You Ski if There Is No Snow?
Imagine a ski resort whose chairlifts are in the lower reaches of mountains without decent snow. Or a scuba club whose reefs succumbed to warmer and stormier seas. Or a golfing hotel in a district where water shortages made it impossible to keep fairways green. Climate change is affecting the world’s tourist industry.
Uncertain times for climate change
Research shows improving climate models and understanding will not necessarily reduce uncertainty in climate sensitivity and that a relatively small change in climate processes could lead to extreme climate sensitivity.
Wildfires move Canadian forests from sink to source
Increase in frequency and size of fires affects carbon-absorption properties of boreal forests. “The recent several decades of wildfires are changing the boreal forest from a weak carbon sink – that is the forest and soil are accumulating carbon and helping offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration – to a weak carbon source,” Stith Gower of the University of Wisconsin … Read More
News: Massive California Fires Consistent With Climate Change
The catastrophic fires that are sweeping Southern California are consistent with what climate change models have been predicting for years, experts say, and they may be just a prelude to many more such events in the future – as vegetation grows heavier than usual and then ignites during prolonged drought periods.
A Global Search Engine For Geospatial Data
If you’re a scientist or engineer cobbling together a geospatial project, say you’re trying to figure out how many people would be threatened by a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, a truism holds that you spend 80 percent of the time hunting down usable data. The data, when they exist at all, often are archived in incompatible formats, have varying degrees of accuracy and precision, and sometimes require a good deal of political savvy to find.
North Atlantic Slows on the Uptake of CO2
Further evidence for the decline of the oceans’ historical role as an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide is supplied by new research by environmental scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Greenland loses ice faster
Another study concludes that the rate at which the Greenland ice mass is sliding into the ocean is increasing.
Earth Observation in the Met Office
The United Kingdom’s Met Office is one of the world’s leading providers of environmental and weather-related services. Our solutions and services meet the needs of many communities of interest, from the general public, government and schools, through broadcasters and online media, to civil aviation and almost every other industry sector – in the UK and around the world. It is also home to the Hadley Centre for climate research.
Antarctic snowmelt progresses inland
Using 20 years of data from satellite observations, NASA scientists have confirmed that snow has been melting further inland and at higher elevations in Antarctica. Warmer temperatures are probably responsible for these phenomena, says the team.