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- Study: ‘Climate change scientists must turn their attention to clean skies’ Thu, 7 Nov 13, 5:46amFrom the University of Leeds and the department of real problems, comes this paper: Natural aerosols, such as emissions from volcanoes or plants, may contribute more uncertainty than previously thought to estimates of how...
- Does your weather station get the wind? How station siting compromises temperature measurements via wind issues Fri, 6 Sep 13, 3:29pmGuest essay by Bob Fernley-Jones Well Melbourne (Oz) sure does, (and we are the butt of a few intercity jokes, a polite one being; we can have “four seasons all in one day”)...
- Citizen driven PressureNet offers real time barometer network Fri, 8 Feb 13, 1:22amSmartphones, tablets help UW researchers improve storm forecasts By Hannah Hickey The next advance in weather forecasting may not come from a new satellite or supercomputer, but from a device in your pocket...
- Thunderclouds Are Increasing Global Warming By Retaining Pollution and Heat Wed, 23 May 12, 2:40amAccording to the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, thunderstorms could be contributing to global warming due to their ability to capture and retain heat...
- The Minnesota “drought flood” Tue, 8 May 12, 5:01pmGuest post by Scott Gates Much as with the UK – where their “drought” is demonstrated by severe flooding … in Minnesota it is much the same...
- Dust deposition linked to glacier melt Sat, 3 Mar 12, 6:00amFrom the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and the Department of “The Albedo made me do it” comes further proof of what we have been saying before on WUWT about albedo effects...
- UHI in South Korea – responsible for over half of the warming Fri, 30 Dec 11, 5:13amThis new study published in the Journal of Atmospheric Environment quantifies the different components of warming there, with UHI making up over half of the total warming: On average, the total temperature increase over...
- “Very wet rain events” from tropical cyclones linked to earthquakes Fri, 9 Dec 11, 4:05pmFrom the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science , an interesting groundbreaking paper, ahem…but, wait for it, we’ll soon hear “Climate disruption causes more hurricanes...
- Smear job by “The Carbon Brief” Sat, 14 May 11, 7:00pmThe website “populartechnology.net” decided to ask the questions the smear publishers didn’t. I’ve been authorized to reproduce this in full here, and reposting at other blogs is encouraged. AGW proponents...
- Pakistan floods last summer could have been predicted Wed, 2 Feb 11, 12:00amPeter Webster at Georgia Tech is a colleague of Dr. Judith Curry. Data generated by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) in late July 2010 indicated imminent, extreme precipitation over Pakistan....