http://klimasnakk.com Increasing the power of your scientific word Fri, 17 May 2013 18:06:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/6818c08d6741a28104d528fb8f96a9c0?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://klimasnakk.com http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/17/small-talk-the-model-way/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/17/small-talk-the-model-way/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:46:11 +0000 Aleksi Nummelin http://klimasnakk.com/?p=734 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/17/small-talk-the-model-way/feed/ 0 aleksinummelin Different Grids DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/16/confusing-the-definition-misunderstood-monsoons/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/16/confusing-the-definition-misunderstood-monsoons/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 15:11:34 +0000 Mathew Reeve http://klimasnakk.com/?p=724 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/16/confusing-the-definition-misunderstood-monsoons/feed/ 0 mathewreeve Heavy rain? It must be the monsoon. Or is it? (photo: Mathew Reeve) A fish-eye view of heavy rain (photo: Mathew Reeve) DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/14/pit-stop-in-the-big-apple-life-in-a-wing-beat/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/14/pit-stop-in-the-big-apple-life-in-a-wing-beat/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 14:39:08 +0000 Hella Wittmeier http://klimasnakk.com/?p=696 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/14/pit-stop-in-the-big-apple-life-in-a-wing-beat/feed/ 0 hellaw Picture 1: View of New York City from Rockefeller Center. Upper part looking to the south, Empire State Building in the foreground. Lower part looking to the north, Central Park in the middle. (Picture: hella Wittmeier) Picture 1: Saw-Whet Owl in Central Park, April 2013. (Picture: Hella Wittmeier) Picture 2: A Great Egret in Cape May, New Jersey, May 2013 (Picture: Sebastian Ludwig) Picture 3: NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC (Picture from www.nasa.gov) DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/03/earth-science-goes-star-wars-how-lasers-can-catch-the-wind/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/03/earth-science-goes-star-wars-how-lasers-can-catch-the-wind/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 13:56:53 +0000 Valerie Kumer http://klimasnakk.com/?p=671 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/03/earth-science-goes-star-wars-how-lasers-can-catch-the-wind/feed/ 2 valeriekumer Figure 1: LiDAR measurement principle Figure 2: Illustration of the Doppler effect for sound waves. Source: http://mindblowingscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/doppler-effect.jpg Figure 3: Illustration of sea/land breeze during day/night time. Source: http://www.flyngo.com/sites/default/files/images/P11013.PNG Figure 4: Vertical cross section of a land breeze circulation, measured with a scanning LiDAR at the Norwegian West Cost. Source: University of Bergen DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/01/if-temperatures-arent-rising-where-does-the-heat-go/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/01/if-temperatures-arent-rising-where-does-the-heat-go/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 16:41:03 +0000 Iselin Medhaug http://klimasnakk.com/?p=656 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/05/01/if-temperatures-arent-rising-where-does-the-heat-go/feed/ 1 ime067 The global distribution of warming at the time of 2oC above pre-industrial levels using the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM). Temperatures are shown relative to the mean for the period 1850-1900 (from Medhaug and Drange, in preparation). Figure 2: Change of heat content in the ocean (blue) and in the land + atmosphere + ice (red) (From Peter Glieck based on data from Church et al 2011; GRL 38, L18601). DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/04/25/alexander-korablev-on-the-quest-for-variability/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/04/25/alexander-korablev-on-the-quest-for-variability/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:26:57 +0000 Mathew Reeve http://klimasnakk.com/?p=642 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/04/25/alexander-korablev-on-the-quest-for-variability/feed/ 0 mathewreeve Alexander Korablev and his colleagues have been developing a new climatological atlas for the Nordic Seas and Northern North Atlantic based on more than 500 000 in-situ oceanographic stations (black dots in the figure). The arrow indicates the Great Salinity Anomaly moving back into the Nordic Seas in 1976. (source: Climatological Atlas Of the Nordic Seas and Northern North Atlantic, 2013) On the left the fresh water content time series computed from in-situ data at the respectively named areas is presented. It shows an anomaly propagating from the south to the north in the map on the right. The signal coincides with an anomaly entering the system in the East Iceland Current (EIC) (source: Climatological Atlas of the Nordic Seas and Northern North Atlantic, 2013) DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/04/12/subsidence-blue-4/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/04/12/subsidence-blue-4/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:36:48 +0000 Malte Stuecker http://klimasnakk.com/?p=606 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/04/12/subsidence-blue-4/feed/ 0 stuecker Figure 1: Taken at 9 am on 16/01/2013 at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa campus. Figure 2: GFS Forecast for 8 am HST (18 UTC) on the 16/01/2013. Displayed are surface pressure (green contours), precipitation (shading) and 500-1000 hPa thickness (blue contours) as an indicator for the jet stream position. Figure 3: GFS Forecast for 8 am HST (18 UTC) on the 16/01/2013. Displayed are low-level (1000 hPa) winds (wind barbs). Figure 4: GFS Forecast for 8 am HST (18 UTC) on the 16/01/2013. Displayed are upper-level (250 hPa) winds (wind barbs). Figure 5: GOES satellite image (visible channel) of Hawai'i at 8.30 am HST on 16/01/2013. Figure 6: Skew-T diagram for station Lihue at 2 am HST on 16/01/2013. The temperature (red line) and dewpoint (blue line) from the sounding are displayed as well as the wind magnitude and direction (barbs) and the moist adiabat (black line). Figure 7: WRF model output for 8 pm HST on 15/01/2013. Relative humidity (shading) and wind (barbs) at the 850 hPa level are shown. DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/29/norway-and-the-usa-two-countries-two-cultures-one-science/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/29/norway-and-the-usa-two-countries-two-cultures-one-science/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:40:58 +0000 Aleksi Nummelin http://klimasnakk.com/?p=406 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/29/norway-and-the-usa-two-countries-two-cultures-one-science/feed/ 0 aleksinummelin Not so far away? DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/24/like-a-rock-in-a-cold-river/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/24/like-a-rock-in-a-cold-river/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:10:18 +0000 Mathew Reeve http://klimasnakk.com/?p=363 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/24/like-a-rock-in-a-cold-river/feed/ 0 mathewreeve MODIS image showing the wake downstream of Svalbard on May 23 2007 (source: EOSDIS NASA) Vortices forming downstream of Jan Mayen on ??? (left) and ??? (right) (source: EOSDIS NASA) Gravity waves and vortices downstream of the Aleutian Islands on ??? (left) and ??? (right) (source: EOSDIS NASA) Volcanic Ash illustrating the vortices downstream of Z Island April ?? 2012 (source: EOSDIS NASA) DISCLAIMER http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/12/resurfacing-the-ocean-floor/ http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/12/resurfacing-the-ocean-floor/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:01:30 +0000 camille http://klimasnakk.com/?p=270 Continue reading →]]> http://klimasnakk.com/2013/03/12/resurfacing-the-ocean-floor/feed/ 1 camilleks Marie Tharp 1961 seafloor map DISCLAIMER