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CMIP6: Not-so-sudden stratospheric cooling

Real Climate

So SSU me Like MSU trends, these records reflected a weighted average of atmospheric temperatures, and the three SSU channels progressively weight higher levels in the stratosphere, roughly centered on 30km, 40km and 45km above the surface but with quite a bit of overlap. References B.D. Po-Chedley, L. Solomon, D.W.J. Thompson, C. Casas, G.A.

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The 5th International Conference on Regional Climate

Real Climate

A panel discussion at the ICRC 2023 at ICTP Developments within regional climate modelling A new development, however, is the coupling of regional climate models (RCM), which traditionally have been limited to a volume of the atmosphere with some input from the surface. 775-816, 2002. 775-779, 2012. TAKAYABU, H. KANAMARU, K.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

are used all over the world, based on calculations that quantify the effects of physical mechanisms and the way different parts of the atmosphere are connected to each other. The physics-based models describe how energy flows through the atmosphere and ocean, as well as how the forces from different air masses push against each other.

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Sorcery, Magic, and a Bit Of Alchemy? Creating Water

Acoel

A few decades ago, the concept of atmospheric water management, geo-engineering, or weather modification might well have been characterized as a form of sheer alchemy, magic, or sorcery. Cloud seeding (atmospheric water management) an example of planned modification, airborne sediment (contaminated or otherwise) an example of inadvertent.

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NASA launches flagship $10bn James Webb Space Telescope

Physics World

Yet the mission, which was renamed in 2002 after a former NASA administrator, has been beset by delays and cost overruns. It will also probe the atmospheres of the planets as they pass between the telescope and their parent stars.

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X-ray emissions from Uranus are detected for the first time

Physics World

X-ray emissions have been detected from most planets in the solar system and can originate from a variety of processes including the scattering of X-ray photons from the Sun; collisions between plasmas and planetary rings; and aurorae generated as solar winds interact with polar atmospheres.

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Were high-energy neutrinos from a supernova detected 34 years ago?

Physics World

Those neutrinos were all detected within the space of just 13 s, confirming existing models of supernovae and earning the then Kamiokande-II spokesperson, Masatoshi Koshiba , a share of the 2002 physics Nobel prize. However, the neutrinos all had relatively low energies – a few tens of millions of electronvolts.