Real Climate

JULY 24, 2023

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a large-scale overturning motion of the entire Atlantic, from the Southern Ocean to the high north. Graph by Ruijian Gou. The AMOC is a big deal for climate. It moves around 15 million cubic meters of water per second (i.e. 15 Sverdrup). Take the IPCC reports.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 12, 2024

First, it’s been obvious for months that 2023 would be a record year – in temperatures (at the surface, troposphere and in the ocean), in Antarctic sea ice, in the number of big climate disasters etc. Only the jump from 2014 to 2015 (coincidentally (?) Why oh why? So why was 2023 so special? 2023 ; Roach et al., Roach, K.D.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Think about what is involved – biological proxies from extinct species, plate tectonic movement, disappearance in subduction zones of vast amounts of ocean sediment, interpolating sparse data in space and time, degradation of samples over such vast amounts of time. All of which adds to the uncertainty.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere. mm increase every year.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Projections of (a) temperature (constrained), (b) Arctic sea ice area (raw CMIP6), (c) ocean pH (constrained), and sea level (d)to 2100, and (e) to 2300 (constrained). Literally, the sea level projection runs off the page… (Stefan will have a more detailed assessment later). Figure SPM 8. 1, SPM, AR5.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the Arctic Ocean, the summer sea ice minimum is an important milestone during this seasonal transition. The sea ice minimum occurs when the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reaches its lowest point for the year. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © NASA Scientific Visualization Studio.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The sprawling Semitropic Water Storage District in Kern County wants Kings River flood water that it says current rights holders are letting flow to the ocean in heavy precipitation years. It’s really, really not cool,” Vidovich said. .

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