Saturday will mark the 50th day without measurable precipitation in our area. Next Wednesday, CIG‘s Nate Mantua will be talking about regional climate variability, what it has to do with our dry summer, and what it might mean for us in the future. Read more here.
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Two years of precipitation-rich winters in the Pacific Northwest (even more than normal) could well be broken if climatic conditions in the equatorial Pacific shift from so-called neutral conditions toward El Niño. Read more about the current predictions, CIG‘s Nate Mantua is quoted.
Some say that “climate is what we expect, weather is what we get”. But is the funding for climate hurting our ability to forecast weather? This Washington Post blog post is centered on this discussion, and cites ATMOS‘s Cliff Mass‘ blog heavily. Read more here. New research by Atmospheric Sciences’ Stephen Po-Chedley and Qiang Fu has identified a calibration error in a key data set, allowing for a correction in climate models that brings these models closer to observed data. Read more here. Also check out these FAQ‘s! Check out this neato animation of the Vashon glacier over the past 19,000 years. The model was developed by ESS affiliate assistant professor Ralph Haugerud and others:
A new study out in Nature finds that human-emitted aerosols may be largely to blame for the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation–and therefore that this apparently cyclical climate phenomenon may be neither multidecadal nor an oscillation. Read a perspective on this article here. |
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