All Atmospheric Sciences
Giant volcanic eruption drove historic global warming event
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 8 Dec 2017
New research by a group of international scientists suggests that an extreme global warming event 5…
Volcanic eruption linked to El Niño
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 5 Dec 2017
Researchers at Rutgers University have discovered that large volcanic eruptions can prompt El Niño …
Predictive qualities of social media discovered
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 21 Mar 2017
Social media has been found to be effective at predicting hurricanes, storms and floods before they…
Satellite repositioned for better weather tracking
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 4 Oct 2016
A new satellite has been manoeuvred to better observe weather and climate over the Indian Ocean.
Climate change agreement achieved unilateral compliance
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 30 Jun 2016
Taken together, the carbon emissions of all 36 countries that committed to the Kyoto Protocol, sign…
Theory on ancient Earth’s atmosphere challenged
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 23 May 2016
An international team of scientists are challenging the theory that ancient Earth’s atmosphere was …
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 11 Feb 2016
Antarctic fungi have spent 18 months on the ISS, managing to survive under Mars-like conditions.
Transport sector can reduce CO2 emission by 50% by 2050
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 2 Dec 2015
The transportation’s sector CO2 emissions could be halved by 2050, according to new research.
Icelandic volcano SO2 levels top up European industry emissions
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 6 Nov 2015
The volcanic eruption in Iceland that occurred in August 2014 released three times more sulphur dio…
Marine life triggers atmospheric ice
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 1 Oct 2015
Marine life in remote ocean regions can contribute to airborne particles that trigger ice formation…
Volcanic eruptions and global climate linked at last
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 27 Jul 2015
New ice core data has revealed further evidence that volcanic eruptions have a significant and repe…
The rise of new ozone-damaging gases
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 9 Mar 2015
Short lived gases - previously thought to have little effect on the environment - can contribute to…
Gee-whiz science yields high res climate models
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 21 Nov 2014
A climate scientist has used the powerful supercomputers at Berkeley Laboratory to carry out ‘gee-w…
Weather forecasting set to improve
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 29 Oct 2014
A new £97m supercomputer could put an end to the complaints about weather forecasting accuracy.!--m…
New threat to ozone layer
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 17 Sep 2014
The Antarctic ozone hole is beginning to show signs of recovery, but a new threat is lurking sugges…
Winter weather set to get more erratic
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 12 Sep 2014
Extreme variations in pressure over the North Atlantic are responsible for our increasingly erratic…
Ancient shellfish provide clues to El Niño history
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 22 Aug 2014
New insight into the El Niño Southern Oscillation has been provided by 25-foot piles of ancient she…
Svalbard reindeer numbers on the rise
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 23 Jul 2014
In an unexpected twist, climate change is having a positive effect on the Norwegian reindeers of Sv…
Cloud formation slowed by biodiesel emission
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 14 Jul 2014
Global cloud formation and rainfall could be more dramatically and unexpectedly affected by the inc…
Global warming favours light-coloured insects
qwwqdccwwm.d qwwqdccwwm.d | Added: 7 Jul 2014
A warming European climate has led to lighter coloured butterflies and dragonflies out-competing th…
