Physics World

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As space missions venture ever further afield, spacecraft will inevitably be exposed to greater amounts of cosmic radiation that can damage or even destroy their onboard electronics. Cosmic radiation is ionizing radiation made up of a mixture of heavy ions and cosmic rays (high-energy protons, electron and atomic nuclei).

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New Scientist

APRIL 23, 2024

With severe climate impacts becoming more and more apparent, many scientists think we should explore ways to block out solar radiation, but doing so would be risky

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. But let’s go back to the beginning.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) 1981) which can be seen here. Johnson, A. Lebedeff, P. Rind, and G.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By Bob Berwyn A scientific showdown over whether dispersing massive amounts of reflective particles high into the atmosphere could temporarily and safely mask global warming intensified this week, as a group of more than 60 researchers published a letter Monday calling for accelerated research and small-scale field experiments into what is called solar (..)

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The energy balance of our planet , the radiation arriving and leaving, is continually monitored by a global radiation network at the surface and by dedicated satellites. And yes, also the increase in back-radiation towards the Earth surface from the CO2 greenhouse effect is a measured fact. Image: Prof.

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Real Climate

MAY 30, 2024

Zhou, "Atmosphere teleconnections from abatement of China aerosol emissions exacerbate Northeast Pacific warm blob events", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , vol. So to help people keep track, we’ll maintain a list here to focus discussions. Let us know in the comments if there are relevant papers we’ve missed.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 23, 2021

Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 4, 2023

After the war, the US conducted atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands and in Nevada and many more underground. But the nuclear tests, and particularly the atmospheric tests, were enormously destructive to the land and communities that were exposed to their explosive power and radiation.

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Real Climate

MARCH 4, 2021

About five years later, analysis of an extended simulation of yet another climate model–the coupled ocean-atmosphere model run by the Hadley Centre within the UK Meteorological Office, yielded evidence for a similar oscillation, albeit with a longer (roughly 100 year) period, and a more global signature (Knight et al.,

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in … Continue reading How fast can we stop Earth from warming?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It turns out — I’ll bet even most AIs don’t know this — the oxidized carbon byproduct of our fuels has a nasty tendency to pile up in the atmosphere. Even more surprisingly, that changes the atmosphere’s radiation profile. What with various feedback loops, the results were pretty startling.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 12, 2022

Global warming is causing there to be more cloud cover over land areas because a warmer atmosphere can essentially hold more moisture. At night, clouds absorb and re-emit heat that radiates out from Earth, which has a warming effect on temperatures. Across the United States, average minimum and maximum temperatures are 1.4°F

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

OK, on to methane in the environment: The headline here – whether you’re talking about atmospheric concentrations, climate impacts, or emissions – is that there is a lot less methane than CO 2 , but it’s a more potent climate heater and it’s increasing faster. Atmospheric concentrations. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Hot, ocean-covered exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life and may be more common than planets that are Earth-like in size, temperature and atmospheric composition. However, it has so far proven difficult to detect atmospheric signatures from Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Marsha Haley: University of Pittsburgh radiation oncologist – Speaking about health risks associated with oil and gas industry’s radioactive emissions, the various radioactive elements involved, and the research she is currently involved with on the topic. Haley, M.D.,

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Inside Climate News

JULY 21, 2023

Some scientists worry that studying how to shade the Earth from some of the sun’s heat is a slippery slope toward deployment of ‘solar radiation management’ without fully understanding the risks.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 3, 2022

If people everywhere stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow, stored heat would still continue to warm the atmosphere. Picture how a radiator heats a home. Water is heated by a boiler, and the hot water circulates through pipes and radiators in the house. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room.

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Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

One may be that RCMs are often physically inconsistent with respect to the driving GCMs, which may involve different outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) at the top of the atmosphere over the same atmospheric volume.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad.

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Physics World

AUGUST 27, 2021

The current polarization puzzle originated in 1996, when astrophysicists Jan Stenflo of ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Christoph Keller (then at the US National Solar Observatory in Arizona) used an instrument called ZIMPOL (Zurich Imaging Polarimeter) to study solar radiation at a wavelength of around 589nm.

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HumanNature

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science and Trainee in the CSU InTERFEWS Program Figure 1: Cover art for The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Large ash particles that rain down and blanket nearby communities are only a fraction of what wildfires billow into the atmosphere. Guest Post by Kimberley Corwin , Ph.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Workers in facilities that produce and use EtO as well as people living near facilities that release it into the atmosphere are at risk of unsafe exposures even when the facilities are using the best available technologies to handle and contain it. Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

Artificial intelligence can be used to detect coronal holes in the Sun’s upper atmosphere, an international research team has shown. When observed at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths, holes can appear in the Sun’s corona – its upper atmosphere. Coronal holes are indicated by red contour lines. Courtesy: Jarolim et al.

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Breezometer

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Our ozone layer serves as a lifesaving UV barrier for planet earth, functioning to absorb most of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. The protective ozone layer which exists in the upper atmosphere is vital to life on earth. At the same time, ground-level ozone pollution is extremely harmful to human health. How is Ozone Created?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 7, 2024

I hope we can collectively reckon with another terrifyingly awesome atmospheric event: the hottest year. The NASA account continued that “any significant change in the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth can change the climate” though it stopped short of naming humans— and a few handfuls of large corporate emitters —as the culprit.

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Physics World

MARCH 19, 2022

That is the conclusion of astronomers who have developed a detailed 3D model of the atmosphere of WASP-121b, which is a “hot Jupiter” that is about 850 light-years from Earth. Their observations allowed them to model the atmosphere of the gas giant exoplanet.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

Albedo The amount of solar radiation reflected from an object or surface, often expressed as a percentage. Atmosphere The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% The dry atmosphere consists almost entirely of nitrogen (78.1% a reduction in ocean pH).

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Physics World

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The correlation had been shown in a paper by an author outside the conventional scientific community, so, for good measure, Simpson added that a non-expert could not properly appreciate how atmospheric circulation affects the absorption of radiation. Other little-known researchers, however, made essential progress too.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Astronomers have speculated that if the compact object is close to its surviving companion star, it can spiral into the star’s atmosphere, eventually sinking to the companion’s core where it disrupts the star, causing it to go supernova prematurely. Gradually, the compact object came to be within the star’s atmosphere.

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Physics World

JANUARY 30, 2022

Likewise, you could have a heating penalty in the winter where you desire to have that solar radiation reaching the building surface, but PV panels are actually shading the building. And so that’s a mechanism whereby we would expect to have an air conditioning benefit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

NIF can also be used to generate x-rays and gamma-rays which are used to study radiation hardness of weapons components and assemblies. A bumpy road to fusion. The ability to drive matter to unprecedented densities and temperatures also makes NIF a unique tool for fusion research.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

They focused specifically on two marine CDR approaches—ocean alkalinity enhancement and biomass cultivation for carbon removal (including seaweed cultivation and sinking) —and two solar radiation management techniques—marine cloud brightening and surface albedo enhancement. Solar radiation management is distinct from CDR.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Taking into account not only permafrost thaw, but also a host of other biogeochemical and atmospheric feedbacks, the AR6 estimates to appropriately include the effect of all these feedbacks, remaining carbon budgets have to be reduced by 26 ± 97 GtCO 2 per degree Celsius of additional warming.

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Physics World

JULY 17, 2021

The impact of cosmic radiation is not always as trivial as determining who wins a Super Mario game, or as positive in its outcome. The culprit, again, was most likely cosmic radiation. When they strike the Earth’s atmosphere they create a secondary shower of particles, including neutrons, muons, pions and alpha particles.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Planned facilities, such as the European Spallation Source that is being constructed in Lund, Sweden, meanwhile, have integrated sustainability into their design such as diverting waste heat into local heating systems instead of it being vented into the atmosphere. Eager to learn. Leading by example: going green in the lab.

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