DEI thoughts – Part 1
by Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science I am chairing our department's new DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) committee. This is a very complicated issue and one that I…
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by Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science I am chairing our department's new DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) committee. This is a very complicated issue and one that I…
Continue Readingby Dr. Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science This post collects some of the weather and climate visualizations I made in 2020. GOES Band 10 (low-level water vapor), 12Z…
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by Dr. Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science Globally, November 2020 was the warmest November on record: https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-november-2020 The reds indicate temperatures warmer than the 1981-2010 average and the…
Continue Readingby Mathew Barlow, EEAS Professor of Climate Science This post includes twenty short animations from our undergraduate two-course sequence in atmospheric dynamics. Topics covered include vorticity, waves, and instability. The…
Continue Readingby Mathew Barlow, EEAS Professor of Climate Science This post gives links to freely-available code for simple models of the atmosphere (and ocean). If you know of anything I've missed,…
Continue Readingby Mathew Barlow, Professor of Climate Science Blocks and jet streaks appear to be fairly different phenomena. However, in a very idealized sense, they can be thought of two versions…
Continue Readingby Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science This is a brief discussion of some of the ways different isolated areas of vorticity - vortices - can interact with each…
Continue Readingby Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science During the 2018-2019 Northern Hemisphere winter, a major Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) occurred in association with the breakdown of the Polar Stratospheric…
Continue Readingby Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science The basic unit of scientific evidence is a peer-reviewed publication in a reputable scientific journal. More on exactly what that means in…
Continue Readingby Mathew Barlow, UML Professor of Climate Science 1. Definitions Vorticity is a measure of local rotation in the atmosphere, and potential vorticity is an extension of vorticity that further…
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