Into the Ice: Using a Drone to Explore Inside a Glacier
Inside a mammoth glacier in Iceland melting at an alarming rate from warming temperatures. Teaser image via http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/stunning-beauty-icelandic-ice-caves-6909891
AGU 2015: Arctic Report Card 2015
The Arctic is on the front lines of global climate change, warming more than twice as fast as lower latitudes. Now in its 10th year, the Arctic Report Card provides the latest Arctic observations from an international team of more than 70 scientists in 10 countries about changes in Arctic air and sea temperatures, snow,…
AGU 2015: Global impacts of the 2015 – 2016 El Niño
The unfolding 2015-16 El Niño event is already the strongest the world has seen since 1997-98, and people all over the world are feeling or are expected to feel its impact in a variety of ways. Scientists from NASA and NOAA will present findings on El Niño’s global reach as seen from the vantage point…
AGU 2015: The impacts of heat stress on densely populated regions in the 21st century
Globally, heat kills more people than any other weather-related event. With temperatures and humidity expected to increase in the coming decades, heat stress is projected to have increasingly severe impacts on many regions of the world. Here, researchers estimate the global exposure to fatal heat stress throughout the 21st century and its effects on human…
AGU 2015: Alaska’s thawing permafrost Latest results and future projections
Alaska’s permafrost is starting to thaw as the climate warms, and scientists project there will be even greater thawing of the frozen soils in the coming decades, releasing carbon into the atmosphere, and impacting ecological systems and infrastructure. A panel of permafrost experts will unveil new findings about permafrost degradation in Alaska, where permafrost covers…
AGU 2015: Jennifer Francis recent studies on Weather Blocking Patterns
Recent Changes in Blocking Characteristics Assessed Using Self-Organizing Maps Speaker: Jennifer Ann Francis Blocking anticyclones are known to be associated with persistent weather patterns that often lead to extreme weather events. An outstanding question, however, is whether the frequency and/or intensity of these dynamical features are changing in response to human-caused climate change, and in…
NASA Eyes on the 2015 El Niño
People the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. New satellite observations are beginning to show scientists its impact on the distribution of rain, tropospheric ozone and wildfires around the globe. An El Niño, which is…
Why is the Weather in the Northern Hemisphere so unusual mild? #JetStream #ElNino #PolarVortex
Here we look at the current weather configuration in the Northern Hemisphere, with the scope on the mild 2015 winter weather in what seems to affect many regions in northern latitudes this winter. The atmosphere in many northern regions like Canada (Northern America) or Europe is currently dominated by westerly jet stream winds. This configuration has…
Koko the Gorilla has a Message for You
Wikipedia: Hanabiko “Koko” (born July 4, 1971) is a female western lowland gorilla who is known for having learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of American Sign Language (ASL). Her trainer, Francine “Penny” Patterson, reports that Koko is able to understand more than 1,000 signs of what Patterson calls “Gorilla…