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Q&A: How AI might become the future of hurricane flood forecasting
Artificial intelligence is becoming an asset in hurricane forecasting.This post was originally published on this site.
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Antarctica’s hidden wind jets: Study reveals storm-driven low-level jets near Thwaites ‘Doomsday Glacier’
In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) race over its coastal regions, including both the Thwaites and Pine Island ice shelves and […]
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Anthropologists spotlight human toll of glacier loss
In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine the societal consequences of global glacier loss in a commentary published today in Science.This post was originally published […]
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Hurricane Ida in 2021 could have been even worse for New York City
During the final week of summer in 2021, Hurricane Ida emerged from the Gulf of Mexico, turned almost directly northeast and swept through the South en route to Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.This […]
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Climate change: No reprieve from heat this decade as globally agreed 1.5°C limit looms
Temperature limits the world agreed to avoid are looming into view.This post was originally published on this site.
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New study examines informal educators’ self-efficacy in facilitating youth civic engagement for the environment
An article investigating the self-efficacy of informal educators in leading youth civic engagement projects has been published in the Journal of Museum Education.This post was originally published on this site.
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Saving twice the ice by limiting global warming
A new study with ETH Zurich finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5°C, at least 54% could […]
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How Greenland’s glacial troughs influence ocean circulation
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) serves as the Atlantic Ocean’s conveyor belt, transporting warm water north toward the Arctic Circle and returning cold, dense water back to the tropics. Nearshore areas off Greenland are […]
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Gender-sensitive data bring more depth to marine spatial planning
When considering how to use marine spaces and allocate resources to their management, policymakers would do well to take a gender-sensitive approach. So say UC Santa Barbara researchers and their collaborators in a study published […]
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Affordable sensor system detects algal bloom in real time
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology has successfully developed a real-time, low-cost algal bloom monitoring system utilizing inexpensive optical sensors and a novel labeling logic. The system achieves higher accuracy than state-of-the-art AI […]