Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Sea level rise.
Archive of posts filed under the climate variability category.
Wet Spring?
Via the Journal’s Bruce Daniels comes word of a forecast for a wet spring: Who needs computer models and satellite imagery to tell which way the wind’s blowing? Certainly not Joseph Weldon Crim of Portales. Using what he calls a Plains Indian ritual passed down to him through his father, the 70-year-old Portales resident got …
Drought Up Close
Emily at New West on what drought looks like up close.
NASA News
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a post-Deutsch flood of climate change news releases coming out of NASA recently: NASA Finds Stronger Storms Change Heat and Rainfall Worldwide NASA scientists confirm climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth’s largest storehouses of ice and snow. Bering Sea Ecosystem …
Hurricanes Part XXVII
Last week I mentioned the new Virmani and Weisberg hurricane paper. Now Kevin Vranes has gone the extra mile (where would we be without the blogosphere?) and actually read it: What controlled the anomalous 2004 and 2005 seasons was a slackening in the easterly winds in the tropical Atlantic (for you non- atmospheric nerds, the …
Storm of the Winter Update
Inkstain’s staff empiricist forgot the salient detail: 0.13 inch of rain in the Inkstain rain gauge. For a normal March, we’d get one storm that size per week. Also, a correction. This wasn’t the first measurable rain since January. March 1 we got 0.01 at the airport.
Storm of the Winter
No question mark. We awoke to snow this morning. Our camera’s busted, so I refer you to Coco for a look. The staff empricist empiricist here at Inkstain reports 1-3/4 inch on the various flat bits in the backyard. The water equivalent at the airport is a tenth of an inch. Those of you living …
Storm of the Winter?
One of my weather geeks called the weather settling in over northern New Mexico and southern Colorado today the “storm of the winter”, which is not saying much given the winter we’ve had, but is still better than saying nothing. There’s currently an avalanche warning for the San Juans in southern Colorado, with two feet …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
On hurricanes and drought (sub. req.): The same global forces that unleashed Katrina on New Orleans may be quietly sapping the West of its water. Drought and hurricanes seem to go hand-in-hand, said Julio Betancourt, a drought researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson. Betancourt is among a growing number of researchers pointing to …
Water Supplies in Africa
Apropos a long and predictably unproductive comment thread, a new study published on line by Science today: Using predicted precipitation changes, we calculate that decrease in perennial drainage will significantly affect present surface water access across 25% of Africa by the end of this century. I don’t want to make too big a deal of …