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April 6, 2021
Kuo-Nan Liou, a UCLA distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and the founding director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE), died March 20 at his home in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 77.
“Kuo-Nan was a great scientist and an outstanding leader, who had a profound impact on science and on UCLA. We will miss him greatly,” said Miguel Garcia-Garibay, dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences.
A former chair of UCLA’s department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, Liou joined UCLA’s faculty in 1997, after a 22-year faculty career at the University of Utah.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deadly heatwaves in South Asia are likely to become more common in the future, with the region’s exposure to lethal heat stress potentially nearly tripling if global warming isn’t curbed, researchers said.
But the threat could be halved if the world meets a goal set under the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, researchers said in a study published this week by the American Geophysical Union, an international scientific association.
“The future looks bad for South Asia, but the worst can be avoided by containing warming to as low as possible,” Moetasim Ashfaq, a climate scientist at the U.S.-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said in a statement.
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Ryan A. McManamay, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental science at Baylor University, is among the recipients of the Sustainability Science Award announced today by the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
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Sustainability Science Award is given to the authors of a scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences. One of the most pressing challenges facing humanity is the sustainability of important ecological, social and cultural processes in the face of changes in the forces that shape ecosystems and regions.
Climate Minute: Longer summers by the next century?
Warm seasons could get longer, colder seasons shorter
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SAN ANTONIO – If there’s something we know a lot about here in South Texas, it’s summertime heat. But what if our summers were even longer than they are now?
A recent study from the AGU - American Geophysical Union - suggests that summerlike weather conditions could last for nearly six months out of the year by the start of the next century.
The peer-reviewed study looked at daily mean observed temperature over the northern hemisphere over a 52 years. Over that time, the number of days with summerlike weather increased from 78 to 95.