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From drought to hurricanes, Grenada tackles climate change with German help
2013-12-24 08:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: After a sudden thunderstorm this fall, Paul Valdon sat in a line of cars for 45 minutes near a bridge over a river because of gushing water. People got out of their vehicles and shouted in frustration as the river engulfed the concrete structure, preventing them from crossing the waterway in the northeast part of the island. His friend in a nearby car tried to find an alternative way through the mountains, but got stuck again when a landslide blocked that road, as well. Valdon missed an important...
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How Earths rotation affects vortices in nature, such as hurricanes and ocean currents
2013-10-15 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an imaginary straight or curved axis. Understanding how geophysical (natural world) vortices behave can be critical for tasks such as weather forecasting and environmental pollution monitoring. In a new paper in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers Junho Park and Paul Billant of the CNRS Laboratoire...
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African Dust Clouds Could Be Affecting International Air Quality, Hurricanes
2013-09-19 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Dust clouds originating in Africas Sahara Desert can travel thousands of miles, impacting in the air quality in Texas and other regions of the world, according to research appearing in a recent edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. In fact, not only can this phenomenon occur, but it does so every year and the dust often reaches the US in large quantities, according to Joseph Prospero, professor emeritus at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric...
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Hurricane Isabel, 10 years later: Climate change increasing chances of more destructive hurricanes
2013-09-15 15:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Dispatch: If you pick enough cards, you will draw an ace. And if you endure enough hurricanes, you will suffer a really bad one. Climate change, however, is loading the deck, many experts say. You cant say for sure that Hurricane Sandy in 2012 or Hurricane Isabel in 2003 were caused by our warming climate. Destructive storms can happen naturally, just as you can draw an ace from a normal deck. But climate change is increasing the probability that a storm will be big, according to experts such...
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Hurricanes Become Less Threatening To US Coast, Based On Climate Models
2013-09-03 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Recent studies have painted a pretty grim picture for future hurricane seasons, with more frequent and intense storms occurring in the Northeast due to a changing climate. Last years superstorm Hurricane Sandy was labeled as evidence of such climatic storms impacting the US Atlantic coast. However, a new study by researchers from Columbia University and Colorado State University is suggesting climate change could eventually keep such hurricanes from making a sizeable impact on US coastlines....
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