Record November Warmth, a precursor to a warm winter?
By: David Coe Ph.D Student Record high temps in the mid to upper 70s have been seen across the region this weekend with multiple stations setting new daily records Friday…
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By: David Coe Ph.D Student Record high temps in the mid to upper 70s have been seen across the region this weekend with multiple stations setting new daily records Friday…
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By: David Coe (Ph.D Candidate) Map by NOAA Climate.gov based on data provided by Philip Thompson, University of Hawaii. Why sea level rise matters Sea-level rise is a major issue…
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 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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