Category Archives: Climate

Shedding some light on DARC (the Data Assimilation Research Centre)

Posted on 29 January, 2024 by sdriscoll

By: Dr. Ross Bannister Data assimilation as a scientific tool for weather forecasting and beyond In the early 2000s few academic groups around the world were doing research into the activity that we call “data assimilation”. Data assimilation is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment

The evolution and destruction of Saturn’s rings

Posted on 19 January, 2024 by sdriscoll

By: Dr. James O’Donoghue Saturn, thanks to its system of rings, is the most recognisable planet in our Solar System. The planet is regularly used in clip-art images alongside a test tube or a DNA strand to represent even science … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment

Understanding thunderstorms over one of the largest lakes in the world

Posted on 17 January, 2024 by sdriscoll

By: Dr. Russell Glazer Over eastern Africa a monumental geological process is occurring that will eventually split the countries of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mozambique from the rest of Africa. The African tectonic plate is spreading along a line … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment

Wavenumber-4 in the Southern Hemisphere: How does it generate? Why does it matter?

Posted on 15 December, 2023 by sdriscoll

By: Dr. Balaji Senapati Understanding climate variability on regional and global scales has always been a challenge. The year-to-year and long-term variations in climate are consistently linked to tropical oceans, spanning the region between 23.5°S and 23.5°N. However, the influence … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment

Machine learning enhanced gap filling in global land surface temperature analysis

Posted on 27 November, 2023 by sdriscoll

By: Dr. Shaerdan Shataer Land Surface Temperature (LST) data, an essential component of climate change indicators (CCI), often suffers from data gaps due to various reasons such as cloud coverage, sensor limitations, or data processing issues. These gaps can hinder … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment

The Signal to Noise Paradox from a Cat’s Perspective

Posted on 13 November, 2023 by sdriscoll

This is not the signal-to-noise paradox, this is just a tribute.  By: Dr. Leo Saffin The signal-to-noise paradox is a recently discovered phenomenon in forecasts on seasonal and longer timescales. The signal-to-noise paradox is when a model has good predictions … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment

The Carbon Footprint of Climate Science – an opinion by Hilary Weller 

Posted on 6 November, 2023 by sdriscoll

By: Hillary Weller What is the acceptable carbon footprint of climate science? Climate science cannot be done without a carbon footprint, and without climate science we would not know that burning fossil fuels is causing dangerous climate change. So without … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment

Rapid developing, severe droughts will become more common over the 21st Century

Posted on 12 October, 2023 by sdriscoll

By: Emily Black At the height of the 2012 corn growing season, two thirds of the United States was hit by a sudden drought. The photographs below compare 2012 to a normal year:   Earlier this year, a similarly sudden drought … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Climate change | Leave a comment

More severe wet and dry extremes as rapid warming of climate continues

Posted on 5 October, 2023 by sdriscoll

By: Professor Richard Allan The UK weather has recently been characterised by large swings between wet and dry periods and with record heat this June and September. Globally, this September was the warmest on record and 2023 is set to … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Climate change | Leave a comment

“…since records began” – Christopher Wren’s first automatic weather station

Posted on 28 September, 2023 by sdriscoll

We restart the weekly blog with a contribution from Professor Giles Harrison. With the blog being down over the summer, Giles‘ contribution was posted on Professor Maarten Ambaum’s excellent blog, where we direct readers until regular service resumes next week. … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate | Leave a comment