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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side). 1975) , and Bryan et al.

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A CERES of fortunate events…

Real Climate

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. that you remember that post, but the simple model has an albedo and an atmospheric absorption that together control the surface temperature. The simplest model for the greenhouse effect. Two layers, albedo, and one LW absorber.

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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. This includes most of the eastern half of the country, the federal agency said.

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Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. But nobody was talking about abandoned wells in 2011. But people need to see things. You can’t just tell people about things. They won’t listen.” Yes, I get very frustrated,” she said.

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Volatile Chemical Products: Important Contributors to Harmful Particulate Matter

HumanNature

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Earths atmosphere is one of our greatest shared resources and provides many ingredients required for life. We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation.

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Drought, The Everything Disaster

Circle of Blue

Specialists like Pulwarty, who is currently a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, use the word “cascade” to describe the long reach. And like that fearsome boxer, the long reach of drought is pummeling. One Thing Leads to Another…And Another.

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Old habits

Real Climate

When it retreats, it opens up for more heat and moisture exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, and the strongest warming can be found where the sea-ice has retreated (Isaksen, et al., 2659-2673, 2011. In other words, there is no albedo effect that can explain this exceptional warming because of the lack of sunlight.

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