- The Turbulent Life Of Clouds
By: Thorwald Stein It’s been a tough summer for rain enthusiasts in Southern England, with the region having just recorded its driest July on record. But, there was no shortage of cloud: there will have been the slight probability of … Continue r…
- 10 days ago 8 Aug 22, 5:24am -
- How would climate-change science look if it was structured “as if people mattered”?
By Ted Shepherd The scientific understanding of climate change is represented by the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), most recently its Sixth Assessment Report. IPCC Working Groups II and III deal respective…
- 17 days ago 1 Aug 22, 6:00am -
- Modelling Convection In The Maritime Continent
By: Steve Woolnough The Maritime Continent, the archipelago, including Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea is made up of hundreds of islands of varying shapes and sizes. It lies in some of the warmest waters on Earth and … Con…
- 24 days ago 25 Jul 22, 5:32am -
- What Is The World Climate Research Programme And Why Do We Need It?
By: Rowan Sutton My schedule last week was rather awry. Over four days I took part in a meeting of 50 or so climate scientists from around the world. Because of the need to span multiple time zones, the session … Continue reading →
- 31 days ago 18 Jul 22, 5:37am -
- The Golden Age Of Radar
By: Rob Thompson One of the most frequently viewed pages on weather apps is the radar imagery. We see them on apps, websites and TV forecasts, and have done for years. But rarely do we see much about what we … Continue reading →
- 38 days ago 11 Jul 22, 5:17am -
- Density Surfaces In The Oceans
By: Remi Tailleux Below the mixed layer, shielded from direct interaction with the atmosphere, ocean fluid parcels are only slowly modified by turbulent mixing processes and become strongly constrained to move along density surfaces of some kind, cal…
- 45 days ago 4 Jul 22, 5:30am -
- Is Europe At Risk From Hurricanes?
By: Reinhard Schiemann Growing up in Europe late last century, I would have been a little surprised at this question, and my knee-jerk answer would have been a firm no: hurricanes happened on TV in far-away tropical places, bending and … Continue r…
- 52 days ago 27 Jun 22, 5:39am -
- Forecasting Rapid Intensification In Hurricanes And Typhoons.
By: Peter Jan Leeuwen We all know the devastating power of hurricanes, typhoons, and their Southern Hemisphere counterparts. It is crucial that we predict their behaviour accurately to avoid loss of life and to better guide large-scale infrastructure…
- 59 days ago 20 Jun 22, 5:31am -
- A Different Kind Of Turbulence
By Miguel Teixeira It might be thought that turbulence is essentially the same everywhere. However, its mixing efficiency depends not only on its intensity (as might be expected intuitively), but also on more subtle properties, such as its anisotropy…
- 66 days ago 13 Jun 22, 5:35am -
- What are the challenges in forecasting the impacts of tropical cyclones?
By: Liz Stephens Last year I joined the Meteorology department in a joint-post between the University of Reading and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCCC), but I still suspect most people have no idea exactly what it is … Continue readin…
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