Regional climate change Archives - Page 3 of 4

Researchers assess whether Canada’s boreal forests are a carbon sink or source

The Future Hangs in the (Carbon) Balance

by Jenny Lunn 8 August 201715 August 2017

A new study suggests that Canada’s boreal forests could absorb more carbon than they release as climate change progresses.

Representatives from NYC and Rio look at the 2012 high-water mark from Hurricane Sandy at New York’s Battery Park.

Science Updates

Cities Partner to Prepare for Natural Hazards and Climate Change

by M. M. Hurwitz, F. Mandarino and D. B. Kirschbaum 18 July 2017

NASA-Rio-UCCRN Workshop on Sea Level Rise, Urban Heat Islands, and Water Quality; New York, 14–16 November 2016

For 17,000 years, rain has washed sediments down the slopes of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, depositing them in Lake Ohau.

Science Updates

Shifting Winds Write Their History on a New Zealand Lake Bed

by G. B. Dunbar, M. J. Vandergoes and R. H. Levy 16 May 201728 September 2021

A team of scientists finds a year-by-year record of climate history spanning the past 17,000 years at the bottom of a South Island lake.

Hurricane Matthew brought high winds and heavy rain to the Caribbean in October 2016.

Opinions

Climate Change’s Pulse Is in Central America and the Caribbean

by J. E. González, M. Georgescu, M. C. Lemos, N. Hosannah and D. Niyogi 27 April 201728 September 2021

Nations that border the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea are ideally placed for tracking the effects of global climate change and testing innovative ways to adapt to future changes.

Researchers untangle how large-scale convection scales respond to changes in atmospheric ozone.

Research Spotlights

Could Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Make Hadley Cells Expand?

by S. Witman 21 April 2017

Convection-driven Hadley cells are expanding poleward. Scientists now may have uncovered part of the reason why.

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Research Spotlights

Melting Ice Could Reveal Toxic Cold War Era Waste in Greenland

by Lauren Lipuma 7 September 2016

Unforeseen political disputes could arise as countries assess who's responsible for the cleanup of the Cold War relics.

Example of old and new instrument types used across the U.S. by the Cooperative Observer Program to record maximum and minimum daily temperatures.

Research Spotlights

Toward a Reassessment of Daily Temperature Range Trends

by Terri Cook 23 May 201629 May 2016

To reduce the uncertainty associated with this important climate change index, recent studies have developed a new diurnal temperature range data set and compared the results to previous estimates.