Environment
- Arctic Tipping Points- #4: The Broken Bridges Of Nares
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Arctic Tipping Points- #4: The Broken Bridges Of Nares ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 30 2010 - 1:20pm
- Recipe: Squid Embroiled In International Politics
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Possibly some of the more hotly contested fishing grounds in the world occur around the Falkland Islands, just off the Atlantic coast of South America. The islands themselves are a point of international contention, and the ocean comes right along for the ...
Article - Danna Staaf - Jan 12 2012 - 10:34am
- Arctic Tipping Points- #5: Where Warm Water Meets Ice
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Arctic Tipping Points- #5: Where Warm Water Meets Ice The flows of meltwater and ocean currents in the Arctic make Niagara Falls look like a kitchen tap. ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 1 2010 - 4:42am
- Mountain Topography Could Alter Effects Of Global Warming
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The future effects of global warming could be significantly altered over very small distances by local air movements in complex or mountainous terrain, according to a new paper in the International Journal of Climatology. Based on a regional temperature in ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2010 - 1:49pm
- Mountains And Climate
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Mountains And Climate When air masses move across mountains they lose moisture. On the other side of the mountain range you tend to find desert. I thought I'd share this MODIS image which shows the difference in climate zones either side of a mounta ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 22 2010 - 5:04pm
- Sermeq Kujalleq- Jakobshavn Isbrae Retreat
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Sermeq Kujalleq- Jakobshavn Isbrae Retreat The Jakobshavn Isbrae, or Jakobshavn glacier, now becoming known by its local name- Sermeq Kujalleq- has been observed retreating since about 1851. Near the small town of Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn, Sermeq Ku ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 22 2010 - 7:25pm
- Interpreting Arctic Satellite Images And Data
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Interpreting Arctic Satellite Images And Data Science writers and media reporters owe a duty of care to their readers: a duty to present facts undistorted by personal opinion or agenda. That duty of care extends not just to what is written, but to what is ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 30 2010 - 1:19pm
- Interpreting Arctic Satellite Images And Data #2- Animations
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Interpreting Arctic Satellite Images And Data #2- Animations Now that NASA's MODIS rapid response system is back online I am able to present some animations which I hope you will find interesting. This article is a continuation of Interpreting Arctic ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 27 2010 - 5:13pm
- Arctic Tipping Points- #6: Are We There Yet?
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Arctic Tipping Points- #6: Are We There Yet? What might cause the Arctic sea ice to have a tipping point? Are we about to reach, or have we already reached a tipping point? This series is a follow-on to my 3-part series Arctic Ice 2010. ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 30 2010 - 8:41pm
- Oil Spills And Troubled Waters
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Oil Spills And Troubled Waters The ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has much of the anti-environmentalist bloggersphere ducking its collective head beneath the parapet. Suddenly, America is aware that offshore oil drilling has the pot ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 2 2010 - 1:29pm