Category Archives: Climate

Weather vs. Climate Prediction

Posted on 12 September, 2022 by danaallen

By: Annika Reintges Imagine you are planning a birthday party in 2 weeks. You might check the weather forecast for that date to decide whether you can gather outside for a barbeque, or whether you should reserve a table in … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Climate Change From Space

Posted on 5 September, 2022 by danaallen

Richard Allan It’s never been more crucial to undertake a full medical check-up for planet Earth, and satellite instruments provide an essential technological tool for monitoring the pace of climate change, the driving forces and the impacts on societies and … Continue reading →

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The Turbulent Life Of Clouds

Posted on 8 August, 2022 by danaallen

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 reading →

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How would climate-change science look if it was structured “as if people mattered”?

Posted on 1 August, 2022 by timpoulter

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 respectively with adaptation and … Continue reading →

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The Golden Age Of Radar

Posted on 11 July, 2022 by danaallen

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 →

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Density Surfaces In The Oceans

Posted on 4 July, 2022 by danaallen

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, called `isopycnal’ surfaces. … Continue reading →

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Is Europe At Risk From Hurricanes?

Posted on 27 June, 2022 by danaallen

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 reading →

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Forecasting Rapid Intensification In Hurricanes And Typhoons.

Posted on 20 June, 2022 by danaallen

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 operations. Although … Continue reading →

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A Different Kind Of Turbulence

Posted on 13 June, 2022 by danaallen

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 (which … Continue reading →

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What are the challenges in forecasting the impacts of tropical cyclones?

Posted on 30 May, 2022 by timpoulter

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 reading →

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