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Researchers with the Long Term Ecological Research station at the University of Colorado’s Mountain Research Station on the Niwot Ridge of Colorado’s Indian Peak work on the 2019 snow survey in the Green Lakes Valley, which includes the Arikaree Glacier and provides a substantial portion of Boulder, Colorado’s water supply. The LTER runs a snow survey in the valley every year.
Lack of monsoon rainfall last summer and spotty snowfall this winter combined to worsen the Western drought dramatically in the past year, and spring snowmelt won’t bring much relief. Critical April 1 measurements of snow accumulations from mountain ranges across the region
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.
Antarctic volcano: Earth s magnetic field is considered crucial to sustaining life on our planet (Image: Getty)
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This is best understood as the magnetic field resulting from a bar magnet centred within Earth and aligned along its rotational axis.
American Geophysical Union researchers led by Dr Hannah Asefaw have now presented proof the GAD approximation might not represent the paleomagnetic field’s over the past five million years as well as it represents its directions.
Clues to the direction and intensity of the paleomagnetic field at a given moment in Earth s history can be preserved in magnetic grains in rocks formed at that time.
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Pavlos Kollias Receives AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Brookhaven Lab/Stony Brook University atmospheric scientist recognized for advances in the field of cloud and precipitation physics through novel applications of millimeter-wavelength radars
December 22, 2020
Pavlos Kollias
UPTON, NY Atmospheric scientist Pavlos Kollias, who holds a joint appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Stony Brook University (SBU), is the recipient of a 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award.
This award annually recognizes five exceptional, mid-career scientists for their excellence in research and leadership in the atmospheric and climate sciences.
“I had no idea my work had left such an impression on my community,” Kollias said. “I am grateful for my mentors, colleagues, and family, whose support has been instrumental throughout my career.”
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December 16, 2020
Rong Fu, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and associate director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, and Gregory Okin, professor of geography, have been selected as 2020 American Geophysical Union fellows. Fu and Okin were recognized for propelling the field of geoscience forward and pushing the boundaries of human knowledge to create a healthier planet.
The fellows were selected for their exceptional contributions to Earth and space science. Since the fellowship’s establishment in 1962, AGU has elected fewer than 0.1% of its members to join the prestigious group of individuals.
Fu’s research aims to clarify the causes and predictability of the variability of the atmospheric water cycle in a climate context, primarily focusing on the interactions between land and vegetation, fire and aerosols, clouds and rainfall, and connections with the adjacent oceans. Her research has been