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The AMOC is slowing, it’s stable, it’s slowing, no, yes, …

Real Climate

This ‘finger print’ of an AMOC slowdown is physically understood ( Zhang 2008 ) and visible not just for the satellite era shown above, but also the reanalysis data (Fig. In the real ocean that is not an observed quantity. So what is this whiplash about? However, in the models the surface heat loss is perfectly known.

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Upcoming Developments in International Governance of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Law Columbia

That’s because the parties to the London Convention and London Protocol are meeting from October 28 to November 1 in London to discuss, among other things, governance of ocean alkalinity enhancement and ocean sinking of biomass (e.g. Some are land-based, while others use the ocean. seaweed) for carbon storage.

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Meet the Idiomysis Shrimp, the Social Butterfly of the Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

These delightful beings can be found from the warm, shallow waters of the Indian Ocean (including the Red Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. robusta (aptly named as they are the largest at a whopping 6 mm; 2008), I. The post Meet the Idiomysis Shrimp, the Social Butterfly of the Ocean appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture

Circle of Blue

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. SWOT, which will measure ocean currents in addition to freshwater flows, will be the latest entrant into this hall of remote sensing champions.

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2023 appears to follow an upward trend in the North Atlantic/Caribbean named tropical cyclone count

Real Climate

It’s an interesting situation if there are different trends for all tropical cyclones on the one hand and the most intense ones on the other, or if there are trends that point in different directions over different ocean basins. 2023) observed a significant seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones since the 1980s in most tropical oceans.

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Reflections on “Yes they can control the weather.”

Legal Planet

By far the most ambitious activities and the most expansive claims are in China, where weather modification schemes came to international attention when they were used to clear the skies over Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.

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Issues and Errors in a new Scafetta paper

Real Climate

Curiously, when referencing the ERA5 data, he cites the description paper from ERSSTv5 – an ocean temperature dataset – instead of Hersbach et al (2020). The error in the second half of his analysis is related to the error made by Douglass et al (2008) and discussed in Santer et al (2008). 1693-1701, 2008.

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