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Tag: WEATHER/STORMS
Mains to Rains website promotes steps towards sustainable gardening
Researchers at Cranfield University have worked with colleagues at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to launch a new website aimed at saving water in the garden. Gardeners visiting the Mains to Rains website can pledge to reduce their dependence on…
Scientists expose the cold heart of landfalling hurricanes
Using simulations, researchers uncover a key clue as to whether hurricanes will decay or re-intensify after hitting land
Climate change leads to unprecedented Rocky Mountain wildfires
June 14, 2021 – Last fall, the Mullen fire west of Laramie raged for the better part of two months, burning more than 176,000 acres and 70 structures in Wyoming’s Carbon and Albany counties, and in Jackson County, Colo. Unfortunately,…
Study of harvey flooding aids in quantifying climate change
How much do the effects of climate change contribute to extreme weather events? It’s hard to say–the variables involved are plentiful, each event is unique, and we can only do so much to investigate what didn’t happen. But a new…
Assessing feasibility concerns in climate mitigation scenarios
While the IPCC is in the midst of the drafting cycle of the Sixth Assessment Report, whose publication will start in the second half of 2021 – one of the most relevant events for the global climate change community, there…
A study analyzes the risk of karst groundwater contamination to human consumption
A scientific study conducted by researchers from 11 countries, five of them from the Centre of Hydrogeology of the UMA
Feeling hot and bothered? It’s complicated
Rising temperatures are increasingly affecting the quality of life in many regions, setting new challenges for architects, urban planners and healthcare systems. Researchers at KAUST have analyzed discomfort due to outdoor heat across Saudi Arabia and neighboring regions to help…
Predicting the ocean: Improved forecast and insights for the Mediterranean and Black Seas
Marine forecasters face the challenge of predicting a very complex and constantly changing marine environment by applying ocean science, knowledge and technological skills to produce predictions of the state of the ocean . Operational forecasts are delivered daily in near…
Extreme rainfall: More accurate predictions in a changing climate
To limit the impacts of climate change it is essential to predict them as accurately as possible. Regional Climate Models are high-resolution models of the Earth’s climate that are able to improve simulations of extreme weather events that may be…
Are wind farms slowing each other down?
If the offshore wind turbines are too numerous, they will produce less power; this should be considered when planning the farms
The best strawberries to grow in hot locations
It’s strawberry season in many parts of the U.S, and supermarkets are teeming with these fresh heart-shaped treats. Although the bright red, juicy fruit can grow almost anywhere with lots of sunlight, production in some hot, dry regions is a…
Less aviation during the global lockdown had a positive impact on the climate
Scientific study by scientists at Leipzig University, Imperial College London and the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace in Paris
Record-breaking temperatures more likely in populated tropics
New research shows that most extreme heat events are going to occur in the tropics rather than the poles
Developing a new AI early warning system for flooding
Lancaster University researchers are developing new artificial intelligence systems that could help to predict and warn of flooding
Study pinpoints key causes of ocean circulation change
Researchers have identified the key factors that influence a vital pattern of ocean currents. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) carries warm water from the tropics northward. Many scientists think that this heat transport makes areas including north-west Europe and…
Newly discovered African ‘climate seesaw’ drove human evolution
While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our species in Africa, the exact character of that climate change and its impacts are not well understood. Glacial-interglacial cycles strongly impact patterns of climate change in many…
Researchers examine record-shattering 2020 trans-Atlantic dust storm
LAWRENCE — For two weeks in June 2020, a massive dust plume from Saharan Africa crept westward across the Atlantic, blanketing the Caribbean and Gulf Coast states in the U.S. The dust storm was so strong, it earned the nickname…
Stormwater could be a large source of microplastics and rubber fragments to waterways
In cities, heavy rains wash away the gunk collecting on sidewalks and roads, picking up all kinds of debris. However, the amount of microplastic pollution swept away by this runoff is currently unknown. Now, researchers in ACS ES&T Water report…
Hurricane Matthew storm surge data wins NHERI DesignSafe Dataset Award 2021
Data assimilation method improves NOAA forecasts of coastal flooding
At what point managed retreat? Resilience, relocation and climate justice
Virtual conference, June 22-25 2021
Researchers identify the causes of the extreme drought that affected the Pantanal
The study shows that the 2019-20 drought resulted from a natural meteorological phenomenon similar to the one that caused the 2014-16 critical water shortage in São Paulo state, Southeast Brazil.
UTA civil engineer developing better flood warning tools for Texas communities
Saving lives and property during Texas floods
New research examines why some firms prepare for natural disasters and others don’t
Strategic Management Journal explores storm preparedness
The when and why of foehn warming in northwestern Japan
First comprehensive climatological study of Japan’s south foehn on the Toyama Plain, conducted by a University of Tsukuba team, revealed that the primary mechanism was dynamic, and that dangerously hot windstorms occurred when a typhoon was present
Envisioning safer cities with AI
Researchers use crowdsourced data, neural networks, and supercomputers to simulate risks to cities and regions
$8.1 billion in damages from Hurricane Sandy directly linked to human-caused climate change
Novel modeling of sea level rise impacts by Stevens Institute of Technology researcher and collaborators creates framework for assessing human-caused damage of past and future coastal storms
Scientists warn: Humanity does not have effective tools to resist the tsunami
This threatens with sudden destruction of coastal cities and numerous human casualties
Earthquake, tsunami hazards from subduction zones might be higher than current estimates
Two of the most destructive forces of nature – earthquakes and tsunamis – might actually be more of a threat than current estimates according to new research conducted by scientists at The University of New Mexico and the Nanyang Technological…
Northern forest fires could accelerate climate change
BU researchers used NASA satellite imaging data to analyze 30 years of Earth’s northern forests and found that fires are increasingly hampering forests’ ability to capture and store atmospheric carbon
A song of ice and fiber
Sandia embarks on Arctic seafloor data project using new underwater technique
Landslides: New early warning systems reduce false alarms
Many slopes in the Campania region are covered with layers of volcanic soil, the result of repeated eruptions over the course of millennia. As the impacts of climate change worsen, including the occurrence of very intense and short rainfall in…
Towards a better understanding of natural hazard risk and economic losses in Europe
The ” Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow “, the second of its series, has been produced with the collaboration of more than 300 experts in disaster risk management. The participants come from different disciplines and…
Study details how Middle East dust intensifies summer monsoons on Indian subcontinent
New research from the University of Kansas published in Earth-Science Reviews offers insight into one of the world’s most powerful monsoon systems: the Indian summer monsoon.
Mysterious living monuments
How will the biggest tropical trees respond to climate change?
How will climate change affect hailstorms?
Hail severity may increase in most regions of the world while Australia and Europe are expected to experience more hailstorms as a result of climate change, an international review led by a UNSW Sydney researcher has found.
Probing wet fire smoke in clouds: can water intensify the earth’s warming?
One-of-a-kind instrument measures humidity’s effects on smoke, filling a key data gap in predicting the scale and long-term impact of fire
Climate change significantly increases population displacement risk
Every year, millions of people around the world are displaced from their homes due to severe weather caused by climate change. According to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, 10.3 million people were displaced as a result of…
Deadly heat waves will be common in South Asia, even at 1.5 degrees of warming
People living in South Asia already experience potentially deadly heat waves, but these events will likely become more commonplace in the coming decades even if global warming is limited to the 1.5 degrees Celsius
Algorithms inspired by social networks reveal lifecycle of substorms, a key element of space weather
Evolution of auroral substorms revealed by physicists at University of Warwick using the same methods that link people through social media
Sea-level rise in 20th century was fastest in 2,000 years along much of East Coast
Global increase from melting ice and warming oceans is most significant change since 1800
Explosive origins of ‘secondary’ ice–and snow
Definitive, real-world evidence for “freezing fragmentation” of drizzle as a major source of ice in slightly supercooled clouds has important implications for forecasting weather and climate
Taking a look at the last millennium shows: Droughts in Germany could become more extreme
In the future, droughts could be even more severe than those that struck parts of Germany in 2018. An analysis of climate data from the last millennium shows that several factors have to coincide to produce a megadrought: not only…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot feeds on smaller storms
The massive storm near the gas giant’s equator has been shrinking, but collisions with a series of anticyclones are likely only surface deep
Researchers discover intact plant fossils beneath Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time
For the first time ever, researchers have found fossils under Greenland’s ice sheet that are so large and well preserved that they can be seen with the naked eye.
Zealandia Switch may be the missing link in understanding ice age climates
Orono, Maine — The origins of ice age climate changes may lie in the Southern Hemisphere, where interactions among the westerly wind system, the Southern Ocean and the tropical Pacific can trigger rapid, global changes in atmospheric temperature, according to…
The secrets of the best rainbows on Earth
Rainbows are some of the most spectacular optical phenomena in the natural world and Hawai’i has an amazing abundance of them.
The world’s oldest crater from a meteorite isn’t an impact crater after all
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it’s actually the result of normal geological processes. During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team…
Data delivery system: The CMCC platform for obtaining and sharing climate data
Temperature, precipitation, ocean salinity, evapotranspiration, indicators: climate data relates not only to observations that represent our climate system in a specific location and time, but also to numerical models that simulate the climate of the past and the future. Data…
Breaking waves and moisture transport drive extreme precipitation events
MUNICH — Around the world each year, extreme precipitation events cause catastrophic flooding that results in tragic loss of life and costly damage to infrastructure and property. However, a variety of different weather systems can cause these extreme events, so…