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
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 definition of Accumulated Cyclone Energy does not make sense.
Sep 11, 2013
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
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
… 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
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
This a quick look at a run from the CMIP5 archive from a model with low sensitivity.
Jul 30, 2013
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
Well, it is more likely than it decreased the odds.
Jul 30, 2013
This page may be a bit outdated. Look here for my comments on three more recent papers.
Jul 19, 2013
I just became aware of a cartoon with my name “Aslak” (h/t PiM). It looks awesome.
Jul 8, 2013