Monthly Newsletter August 2015 Climate: Around the World From the United States to Greenland, Paris, Scotland, and India, the world is actively partaking in the discussion of climate change. Below is a curated list of articles that popped up on IEDRO’s radar throughout the month. Check out what’s being discussed and let us know which article […]
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IEDRO Newsletter – July 2015
July 31, 2015
Monthly Newsletter July 2015 JOIN THE TEAM & MAKE A DIFFERENCE! At IEDRO, we believe that, when used regionally, rescued environmental data can reduce humankind’s suffering and death more than any other endeavor. IEDRO is looking for individuals who are passionate about the environment and the future of our planet, people who want to make to […]
Dr. Teddy Allen attends CariCOF where CPT is used to calculate regional & island-specific rainfall
June 15, 2015
IEDRO’s Director of Scientific Applications, Dr. Teddy Allen, recently attended the Bi-Annual Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF), on the island of Saint Lucia, on behalf of The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), to support a seasonal rainfall prediction workshop. The three-day workshop (May […]
IEDRO Newsletter – June 2015
June 15, 2015
Monthly Newsletter June 2015 PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: IEDRO, with the help and expertise of SummIT Business Technologies, has created a web application that will make recording and digitizing records more efficient than manual methods. Weather Wizards uses web based graphical tools to enable paid participants or volunteer communities to rapidly digitize climate charts. Users view a computer image […]
Audio: In CBC Radio interview, Teddy Allen sheds light on need for more weather data rescue
September 21, 2014
Note: Audio starts automatically SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 | Teddy Allen, Director of Scientific Applications for IEDRO, was interviewed by CBC Radio’s Nora Young as part of the ‘Spark’ series. The interview covered many aspects of DR&D, most importantly, what weather data rescue really means, why we do it, and why we need to do more […]
New greenhouse gases record set, WMO reiterates need for international action to avoid devastating climate change
September 9, 2014
GENEVA (WMO) | According to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, propelled by a surge in levels of carbon dioxide. This injected even greater urgency into the need for concerted international action against accelerating and potentially devastating climate […]
Ocean acidification and the “short term“ marine carbon cycle
August 1, 2012
By Franziska Kersten, PhD Candidate in Marine Geology and Paleontology – Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (Germany). The 2007 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Synthesis Report discusses ocean acidification and its potential to harm marine calcifiers (e.g. corals) in the future. Yet a recent report in Science unequivocally states that parts of the […]
Part 14: How to project climate into the future: Emission scenarios
July 16, 2012
By Luisa Cristini, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa. [Note from the editor: This is the fourteenth in a series of blog entries that will focus on introductory topics in climate dynamics and modeling, and will serve to provide insight into the current understanding of the science.] Changes in external forcing (e.g., solar forcings, astronomical […]
Carbon Balance in the Arctic under Study
July 3, 2012
By Penny Paugh Over half of the Arctic is covered by forest. Snow blanketing over a forest actually keeps the soil at a fairly high temperature. Most climate models do not account for the size of forestry in that area, but some are models are now beginning to account for this variable. Climate modeler Isabelle […]
Part 13: Holocene and Anthropocene
June 28, 2012
By Luisa Cristini, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa [Note from the editor: This is the thirteenth in a series of blog entries that will focus on introductory topics in climate dynamics and modeling, and will serve to provide insight into the current understanding of the science.] In addition to the low frequency variability of […]