WAIS collapse during the last interglacial?
There are several lines of evidence pointing to a WAIS collapse during the last interglacial (MIS 5 / Eemian).
Oct 17, 2013Home
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Homogeneous record of Atlantic hurricane surge threat since 1923
Detection and attribution of past changes in cyclone activity are hampered by biased cyclone records due to changes in observational capabilities. Here we construct an independent record of Atlantic …
Oct 11, 2013 -
A rebuttal to Pielke Jr's 18ft critique.
We show in our paper that the surge index correlates with major land falling hurricanes with a correlation coefficient of 0.6. As expected this correlation improves with smoothing (see paper or table …
Sep 13, 2013 -
The units of ACE are simply wrong
The definition of Accumulated Cyclone Energy does not make sense.
Sep 11, 2013 -
GDEMv2 geotiff compression
There is no good way to download the entire GDEM dataset. It is just lots of manual work. I assume it is because of datavolume that they put artificial restrictions amd annoying hindrances in place.
Aug 10, 2013 -
Citing CMIP data
It would be nice to have a simple doi-like way of citing CMIP6 datasets and this is being discussed today on twitter. I have not been involved in the discussion before, so I have no idea if my ideas …
Aug 10, 2013 -
Lets move Earth!
… away from the sun. I believe that there is a real risk/possibility that at some point humans will attempt some form of geo-engineering to deal with climate change.
Aug 1, 2013 -
A sanity check for RCS
There has been a lot of blogging about yamal. Some of it concerns if RCS introduces spurious signals. It is clear that it is very important to try to get an unbiased estimate of the growth curve.
Jul 30, 2013 -
Projected warming under RCP 4.5
This a quick look at a run from the CMIP5 archive from a model with low sensitivity.
Jul 30, 2013 -
Cyclones and Societies in the Mascarene Islands 17th-20th Centuries
A new paper is out in AJCC which finds a long-term increase of cyclones of the Mascarene Islands based on historical records (Garnier and Desarthe, 2013).
Jul 30, 2013 -
Did AGW increase the odds of that extreme weather yesterday?
Well, it is more likely than it decreased the odds.
Jul 30, 2013 -
Relationship between sea level rise and global temperature
This page may be a bit outdated. Look here for my comments on three more recent papers.
Jul 19, 2013