2011 Cooling Ocean 
Real Climate
JULY 24, 2023
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a large-scale overturning motion of the entire Atlantic, from the Southern Ocean to the high north. Graph by Ruijian Gou. The AMOC is a big deal for climate. It moves around 15 million cubic meters of water per second (i.e. 15 Sverdrup). Take the IPCC reports.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 18, 2021
The landscape of Kulaley Village in northern Kenya lays barren after a drought in 2011. In 2011, two failed rainy seasons thrust the Horn of Africa into the worst famine of the twenty-first century. The La Niña weather pattern, driven by normal cooling cycles in the eastern Pacific, has always caused dry spells in East Africa.
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Real Climate
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Manabe’s early focus was on radiative-convective equilibrium, and his seminal 1967 paper (with his longtime collaborator Richard Wetherald, who passed in 2011 ). The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. But let’s go back to the beginning. 1975) , and Bryan et al.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2023
Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people.
Physics World
OCTOBER 6, 2021
An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 24, 2021
Specialists like Pulwarty, who is currently a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, use the word “cascade” to describe the long reach. And like that fearsome boxer, the long reach of drought is pummeling. One Thing Leads to Another…And Another.
Washington Nature
AUGUST 4, 2023
This dynamic is especially true in the Clearwater Forest Reserve, acquired by The Nature Conservancy in 2011 , as sometimes TNC appears to be opposed to industries that profit off the land. Hunt Creek feeds into to Clearwater River, which eventually spills into the Pacific Ocean. I’m cool with that.” Read More Like This
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