Real Climate
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. Figure adapted from Caesar et al., Nature 2018.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 10, 2024
Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. Both gradual and abrupt thaw can release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further exacerbating warming.
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Real Climate
JULY 10, 2022
The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).
Real Climate
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Furthermore, if you squinted, you could perhaps convince yourself that there was a correlation to solar activity – well, at least Soon could ( Soon, 2005) ). If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. And which solar reconstruction did he use? 27489-27492, 2000.
Real Climate
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
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.
Physics World
JUNE 3, 2021
NASA has announced it will send two missions to Venus to study the planet’s atmosphere and geological features. The Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus (DAVINCI+), meanwhile, will be a probe that will dive through Venus’ atmosphere to precisely measure its composition down to the surface.
Real Climate
MARCH 4, 2021
Two decades ago, in an interview with science journalist Richard Kerr for the journal Science, I coined the term the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” (AMO) to describe an internal oscillation in the climate system resulting from interactions between North Atlantic ocean currents and wind patterns.
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